EOFY AMMA Statement for ASX:SYD Sydney Airport

Only comment is that, another year on, I’m in the same boat as you.

Sharesight have had a year to address this real situation of an AMIT Member Annual Statement having real taxable income, but no cash distribution and a $0.00 Net Dividend, due to an offsetting AMIT cost base increase, causing an error, since we both raised it here last year.

But nothing was done to accept these types of payments in the interim, so here we are again, using a clumsy workaround of overstating the income by $0.01 in order to create an entry.

In regard to the Ex Dates, I used another workaround of setting the Ex Date of 2022 SYD Tax Statement 1 to 31 December 2021 and 2022 SYD Tax Statement 2 to 8 March 2022, one day before we received payment for the shares, in order to make the Sharesight Capital Gains function work correctly.

This forced Sharesight’s Capital Gains Reporting Module to calculate the correct cost base for the six different tranches of SYD shares that I owned, and match the spreadsheets that I have to continue to maintain.

Like you, I’m getting used to doing this for 30 June each year when I override the way that Sharesight reallocates AMIT adjustments in a way that doesn’t reflect the one end of year AMMA statement I receive for each holding and the reporting I receive from companies like InvestSmart, Class and Finex who, like me, only change the cost base of the shares held at the end of the year, not those sold during the year due to a feed of information not provided to the holder, or worse still, some pro-rata estimation.

Only a couple of months before we face these frustrations again. Sorry to vent, but it’s good to know I’m not alone in this.