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This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here

at The Motley Fool.

Well, hello, Alison.

Well, hello there.

We're going to take our listeners on a wonderful journey through time and give you your financial

priorities for every decade of your life.

We're also going to answer your question about avoiding dividends stocks because of taxes. Should you? I don't know. Let's ask bro. All

that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers.

It's time for Answers. And this week's question comes from Anna Paris, from Twitter.

She writes, I'm 10 to 20 years away from retirement. Should I avoid dividend

stocks in order to avoid the income tax? Well, that's an interesting question, Anna. And I

would say if you're going to avoid dividend payers, the problem there is you're actually

going to have to ignore most of the market, because most stocks actually do pay dividends.

Also, several studies have shown that as a group, dividend pairs outperform

non-pares over the long term, although that can change depending on the time frame you look

at it like during the 90s, during the boom-boom years, was actually better to have not

dividend pairs, but of course, that all changed. All those non-dividend pairs didn't turn out

so well in the 2000s. But I will give you a real-life example of investing in a dividend payer outside of an IRA because

I just came across this when I did my taxes.

So 20 years ago, when I was but a wee little bro, or at least still...

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