TaxBullUK capital gains tax

Research

Three questions people argue about, answered with arithmetic instead of opinion. Everything below is computed from public reference data: HMRC, the Bank of England, legislation.gov.uk and fund managers' own published reports. Nothing here comes from anybody's uploaded transactions.

17,550
exchange-rate days compared
139 months, 6 currencies, HMRC against the Bank of England
11,896
offshore fund income records
2,755 share classes, 8 managers
54.1%
taxed in a later year than you would guess
reg 94(4), measured across every record

How much does the exchange rate you pick change your capital gain?

HMRC's manual says the rate is the one in force on the day, then says HMRC does not prescribe which reference point to use. Eleven years of HMRC monthly rates against Bank of England daily spot rates, and what the gap is worth in pounds.

Original analysis · 21 September 2026

What 11,896 excess reportable income records actually show

Offshore fund income nobody paid you, counted in aggregate: how often the published figure is nil, how often a nil fund stops being nil, and why nine records in ten need converting before they can go on a return.

Original analysis · 21 September 2026

How to read anything here

Every number on these pages is computed from the source data rather than typed into the prose, and every page has a section saying what it cannot tell you. Where a figure could not be sourced it is named as unavailable, with the reason. There are no fund prices in this project and no market feed is used for anything, so no figure here is a percentage of a price.

These are analyses rather than a dataset, so there is nothing to download: aggregates, a handful of named examples, and the method, so you can redo the work from the same public sources. Not one figure comes from a calculation anybody ran here. Uploaded transactions are processed in memory and discarded, signed in or not.

More on the rules themselves in the guide, fund-by-fund figures in the ERI lookup, and the tools in the calculators.