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Capital gains reporting
This reporting allows you to calculate investors' capital gains positions for investments held on the platform. It's the easy way of managing and reporting capital gains positions on behalf of your clients.
Features
- Unrealised and tax-year specific realised gains reports are available on screen or can be downloaded as a PDF or Excel spreadsheet
- Excess Reportable Income (ERI) is calculated in the report
- Entry of acquisition costs for capital gains purposes for re-registered and stock transferred investments
- The consolidated capital gains report allows you to combine both reports into one document
- There’s the ability to deliver bulk and/or single client reports
- Reports account for historic deals with daily updates of new transactions
- Calculations are made using prices from the end of the previous business day.
To support you with our enhanced acquisition cost functionality, we have a factsheet that you can find within ' Help and support' once you have logged in. Here you will also find our comprehensive user guide.
Calculations take into account acquisition date and cost, disposal proceeds, current value, equalisation and notional distributions and corporate actions. Computations follow the general CGT rules of identification and matching.
This content does not constitute financial advice, tax advice or legal advice, or provide any recommendations.
Frequently asked questions
What is an offshore reporting fund?
- Most funds that reside outside of the UK are designated ‘offshore’. For example, Irish domiciled funds and ETFs count as offshore.
- You can also tell the Funds country of origin by the ISIN number. If the code doesn’t start with ‘GB’ then it’s most likely an offshore fund.
What is ERI?
- Excess Reportable Income (ERI)
- ERI is the profit from a fund that has not been distributed to investors, either as dividends or interest. ERI is deemed as a distribution of income for UK tax purposes and is treated as if the investor had received on the fund distribution date.
- Excess Reportable Income (ERI) relates to offshore funds that have obtained reporting fund status with HMRC in the UK.
- HMRC maintains an approved list of offshore reporting funds.
What information do fund providers publish?
- Fund and ETF providers publish excess reportable income in annual documents that can be used to calculate tax liability.
- This will typically include the following information:
- Excess reportable income amount per unit / share
- Fund distribution date
- Start/End Day of the reporting / accounting period
- Equalisation amount / adjustment (if any)
- Currency.
How ERI impacts a client?
- Excess reportable income is payable even if fund shares were purchased on the final day of the reporting period.
- ERI has a reporting start and end period. The excess reportable income counts as being received on the fund distribution date which is 6 months after the reporting end period. The distribution date also determines the tax year that any tax liability falls due.
- The fund distribution date may be different from other dividend distribution dates. This way, different tax years can apply to excess reportable income versus income paid directly as cash.
- For income funds, tax will be owed on excess reportable income plus any cash distributions that are paid directly to the customer.
Excess reportable income and capital gains tax
- The ERI is added to the base cost of the fund, which in turn reduces the capital gains tax bill when shares are sold.
- Excess reportable income is earned for any shares held on the last day of the fund’s reporting period.
- Calculation is: Net proceeds – (Base cost + ERI) = Capital gain
- Here’s an example of how to apply it to disposals:
- Base cost (aka acquisition cost) of fund £10,000
- ERI calculated as £500
- Base cost plus ERI = £10,500
- Net proceeds: £20,000
- Less base cost & ERI of £10,500
- Capital gain = £9,500
Capital Gains Reporting for Onshore Funds
- Fidelity has Capital Gains reporting which can help advisers to quickly identify both unrealised and realised gains or losses within client portfolios on the platform.
- The report uses data from all the historic transactions conducted on the platform, and calculations are produced both at an account level and for individual fund holdings.
- Advisers can see a client’s overall Capital Gains position and view which investments the gains and losses arise from.
- Transactions used to perform the calculations can also be viewed within the Capital Gains reports.
Capital Gains Reporting for Offshore Funds
- Fidelity has partnered with a 3rd party vendor to source ERI data from fund providers for all eligible funds.
- Where offshore funds are held and where FIL has access to information regarding the ERI for the fund and the equalisation, this will be included within the calculation of any gain or loss.
When will these changes go live?
From 14 March 2025 Excess Reportable Income for offshore funds will be incorporated into the calculation of both realised and unrealised gains and losses.
Future changes
- The existing Capital Gains Transaction report (accessible to advisers through the FAS website) will be enhanced to include ERI information including; ERI reporting period, the ERI distribution date, the ERI income rate, equalisation rate and tax year.
- Existing reports and web pages will be updated to reflect these changes.
- These changes will be live 21 April 2025.
Things to be aware of
- Our third-party vendor has assured us that periodic checks are completed against the HMRC register ensuring all offshore reportable funds are included within our CGT reporting.
- Where the fund manager has reported a ‘nil rate’ for ERI purposes, this will not appear within our reporting.
- FIL cannot guarantee that it will always have access to this information, and where it is not available, the Capital Gains reports may over or understate a gain or loss on a fund in this category.
- These changes will only be visible to advisers. Therefore, any client accessing information through EI (including advised clients) will not see the same information.