Recording SYD dividends correctly for Tax

Fractal, thanks for your thoughts on how to handle Trust and Non-Trust payments for stapled securities better than the way that Sharesight does natively. It’s helped me clean up the reporting for a couple of the holdings I have.

Can I ask how you handled this year’s tax details from SYD, where there’s a 13U Trust Income amount, and an equal offsetting AMIT cost base increase, resulting in a $0 Net Dividend?

I’m unable to add a payment, so that it flows through to the tax reporting. I get the error:

  • Sorry, we have found some errors:
  • Net Dividend must be a valid positive amount
  • Total Income amount needs to be greater than zero

The relevant fields I used are:
Trust Income
Paid On: 31/03/2021
Ex Date: 31/12/2020
Unfranked Amount: $Value
AMIT cost base Increase: $Value