On May 18, 2011, the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of Wacker Chemie AG voted for a dividend of €3.20 per eligible share to be paid from 2010’s net retained profit of €775,310,368.77
Payment will be made as of May 19, 2011. The dividend will be subject to 25% German capital gains tax, plus a 5.5% "solidarity” surcharge on the tax deducted (a total of 26.375%). The dividend will be paid by the shareholders’ custodian banks via Clearstream Banking AG.*
Shareholders who have supplied their custodian banks with a non-assessment certificate (“Nichtveranlagungsbescheinigung”) from the relevant German tax office shall be liable to neither capital gains tax nor the solidarity surcharge. The same applies – in whole or in part – to shareholders who have submitted an exemption form (“Freistellungsauftrag”) to their custodian banks and have not exhausted the amount exempted in this form with other capital gains.
Munich, May 2011
Wacker Chemie AG
The Executive Board
* This notice applies to shareholders subject to taxation in Germany.
