On March 6, 2018, the German BMF (Federal Ministery of Finance) published a draft circular describing the new regulation for multi-investor special funds. This BMF letter was commented upon by BVI on March 27, 2018.
Please find below a summary of the draft letter:
- The unrealized P&L of all instruments need to be stored with end of year 2017 and the P&L calculation for 2018 must take the market value of 31.12.2017 as cost price. For holdings bought before 01.01.2018, the P&L needs to be split for the time before 01.01.2018 and after.
- The P&L calculation is done as of today. The complicated calculation per periods between subscriptions proposed by BMF last year is no longer required.
- The ownership related income allocation for the P&L will be done in the same way as for dividends (the realized P&L will be split proportionally between the investors invested in the multi-investor special fund at the day of the sale).
- The taxable amounts of the distribution will be different per investor as the ownership related income allocation will be the basis.
- Under this regime, different values per investor are in the tax statement and the share profit will be different per investor.
- The share profit needs to be available end of this year and must be calculated from the beginning of this year.
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