VanEck ERI is now bundled — no more reading the figure off a PDF

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Hold a VanEck ETF outside an ISA and you owe tax on income the fund never paid you — its Excess Reportable Income. Until now, VanEck holders had to find that figure themselves: it lives in a once-a-year PDF that lists share classes by name, with no ISIN column to match against. That figure is now bundled, so the CGT Calculator applies it for you.

What is covered

  • VanEck UCITS ETFs plc, the Irish-domiciled range UK platforms sell — Defense, Uranium & Nuclear Technologies, Quantum Computing, US Fallen Angel High Yield Bond and others.
  • 12 share classes, 37 entries, reporting periods 2022 to 2025. Year-end is 31 December, and the income arises the following 30 June.
  • Every figure is quoted in USD, including for classes that trade in sterling on the LSE. The conversion uses the HMRC rate for the reporting date, not the currency you traded in.

What it does to your numbers

Say you bought VanEck Defense (DFNG) in three tranches during 2025 and held 300 units on 31 December 2025, for an allowable cost of £11,706.06. The bundled figure for that period is $0.1204 per unit, and HMRC’s December 2025 USD rate is 0.7618:

  • 300 × $0.1204 × 0.7618 = £27.52.
  • Your Section 104 pool cost rises to £11,733.58, so you are not taxed twice on that income when you eventually sell.
  • The same £27.52 is dividend income — but on 30 June 2026, six months after the period end. The cost uplift falls in 2025/26 and the income in 2026/27, and the report puts each in its own year.

DFNG trades in sterling, so nothing on the contract note needs converting — yet the ERI still does. That mismatch is exactly the kind of thing that goes wrong by hand.

Why the coverage is partial, on purpose

Only share classes whose first reporting period is 31 December 2022 or later are bundled. VanEck’s report for the period ended 31 December 2021 is not published at any address we can reach, and bundling a class with a hole in its series would be worse than bundling nothing: the pool would be uplifted for some periods but not others, and the “no ERI data” warning that sends you to enter the figure yourself would disappear. Older classes — Gold Miners, Global Mining and the rest — therefore keep that warning, and you add their figures under Edit → Advanced → Custom ERI Entries.

VanEck ETFs N.V. (the Dutch range, NL ISINs) publishes separately and is not bundled yet either.

Where to look

Search your ISIN in the bundled ERI data to see exactly which periods are held, or read the ERI documentation for the reporting rules. VanEck joins iShares, Vanguard, BlackRock and Invesco, taking the bundle past 8,700 entries — all matched inside your browser, with nothing uploaded.