Government Properties Income Trust Announces 2017 Dividend Allocation

Business Wire

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Government Properties Income Trust (Nasdaq: GOV) today announced that the characterization of dividends for 2017 income tax reporting purposes is as follows:


Common Shares

				Dividend Allocation
				Per Share
						Total	Unrecaptured
Declaration	Record	Paid/Payable	Dividends	Ordinary	Qualified	Capital	Section 1250	Return of
Dates	Dates	Dates	Per Share	Income	Dividend⁽¹⁾	Gain	Gain⁽²⁾	Capital
01/13/17	01/23/17	02/23/17	$0.43	$0.2178	$0.0049	$0.0000	$0.0000	$0.2122
04/11/17	04/21/17	05/22/17	$0.43	$0.2178	$0.0049	$0.0000	$0.0000	$0.2122
07/12/17	07/24/17	08/21/17	$0.43	$0.2178	$0.0049	$0.0000	$0.0000	$0.2122
10/12/17	10/23/17	11/20/17	$0.43	$0.2178	$0.0049	$0.0000	$0.0000	$0.2122
		TOTALS:	$1.72	$0.8712	$0.0196	$0.0000	$0.0000	$0.8488
			100.00%	50.65%		0.00%		49.35%

(1) Qualified Dividends are a subset of, and included in, the Ordinary Income amount.

(2) Unrecaptured Section 1250 Gain is a subset of, and included in, the Total Capital Gain amount.

GOV’s common share CUSIP number is 38376A103. This information represents final income allocations.

Shareholders should look to IRS Form 1099-DIV for their tax reporting. This press release is not intended to replace the Form 1099-DIV.

GOV is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which primarily owns properties located throughout the United States that are majority leased to the U.S. Government and other government tenants and office properties in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. market area that are leased to government and private sector tenants. GOV is managed by the operating subsidiary of The RMR Group Inc. (Nasdaq: RMR), an alternative asset management company that is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the Nasdaq.
No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust.