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Wouldn't you have to pay capital gains tax on the dividends you collect right away, if you were to follow the collect-and-buy-manually algorithm? If you get $1 in dividends and buy $1 in shares which you later sell for $3 from a cost basis of $1, you pay tax on $1 initially and $2 at sale. If you use your DRIP to auto-buy the same shares, you pay no tax initially and later sell an $3 share with $0 cost basis and hence pay tax on $3.
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