---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-000261"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SYK"
cik: "0000310764"
company_name: "STRYKER CORP"
filed_at: "2022-01-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T21:30:35.478718+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stryker to refund $1.85/share Dutch withholding tax to former Wright shareholders after tax proposal not enacted

## Summary
- $1.85 per share Dutch dividend withholding tax was withheld from Wright shareholders exchanging shares for cash in the merger.
- Dutch legislative proposal on conditional final dividend withholding tax not enacted by January 1, 2022, so no remittance to Dutch authorities.
- Stryker instructed the paying agent to return the $1.85 per share to each former Wright shareholder from whom it was withheld.
- Payment expected promptly; no refund for shares purchased in Stryker's tender offer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-000261
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SYK
- cik: 0000310764
- company_name: STRYKER CORP
- filed_at: 2022-01-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310764/000119312522000261/0001193125-22-000261-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310764/000119312522000261/d277456d8k.htm

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