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
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
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
Six months after the period end, says reg 94(4). Across every published record we hold, that crosses the 5 April line more often than not, and the fund has until that same day to publish the number.
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.