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How to enter Annual Tax Report components for Vanguard Personal Investor

Vanguard Personal Investor is an IDPS-like scheme. For tax purposes you're treated as holding the underlying ETFs and funds directly, so each fund is a separate trust and needs its own set of tax components in Sharesight.

At tax time Vanguard Personal Investor provides an Annual Tax Report. The components you need are in a section toward the back called "Australian trust distribution income and tax information", which breaks the figures down per fund (by code) — so you can read each fund's components straight off the report and enter them against the matching holding in Sharesight.

Before you start

Your Vanguard Personal Investor Annual Tax Report for the financial year.
Your Vanguard Personal Investor trades already imported into your Sharesight portfolio.

Step 1 — Find the per-fund tax section

In your Annual Tax Report, scroll to Australian trust distribution income and tax information (usually toward the end). This section lists each fund you hold by code, with its tax components for the year. You'll also use the AMIT cost base net amount information section a little further down.

Step 2 — Enter each fund's components into Sharesight

Enter one set of components per holding, using that fund's figures for the financial year. Open the Enter Annual Tax Statement Components form — see How to enter AMIT components in Sharesight for how to reach it — then map the report columns to the Sharesight fields using the tables below.

Where a Sharesight field says add together, sum every listed column and enter the total in that one field.

Australian income

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
Franked amount (including franking tax credits)	13C
Unfranked amounts	13U — add together
Franking tax credits	13Q
Interest income	13U — add together
Other deductions	13Y — no Sharesight field, do not enter

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
NCMI – Primary Production	13L — no Sharesight field, do not enter
Primary Production Excl. NCMI	13L — no Sharesight field, do not enter
Other income	13U — add together
Other income - CBMI	13U — add together
Other Income excl. NCMI	13U — add together
Other Income - NCMI	13U — add together

Watch out: the two primary production columns sit immediately before the four that feed 13U. Don't sweep them in.

Trust distributions from foreign source

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
Assessable foreign source income (Including tax offsets)	20E and 20M — enter in both
Attributable income CFC	19K — no Sharesight field, do not enter
Non-taxable income	No Sharesight field, do not enter
Foreign income tax offsets	20O — add together

Non-assessable income

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
Return of capital	No Sharesight field, do not enter
Tax free	No Sharesight field, do not enter
Tax deferred	No Sharesight field, do not enter
Tax exempt	No Sharesight field, do not enter
Non-assessable non-exempt income	No Sharesight field, do not enter

Note: these are already reflected in the AMIT cost base amounts below. Entering them as well counts the same cost base movement twice.

Capital gains

You enter three fields here — Discounted capital gains, Capital gains and CGT concession. Sharesight then calculates 18A and 18H for you.

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
Discounted capital gains TAP	Discounted capital gains — add together
Discounted capital gains TAP - CBMI	Discounted capital gains — add together
Discounted capital gains TAP excluding NCMI	Discounted capital gains — add together
Discounted capital gains TAP - NCMI	Discounted capital gains — add together
Discounted capital gains non-TAP	Discounted capital gains — add together

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
CGT concession	CGT concession — add together
CGT concession - CBMI	CGT concession — add together
CGT concession excluding NCMI	CGT concession — add together
CGT concession - NCMI	CGT concession — add together
Index capital gains TAP	Capital gains — add together
Index capital gains non-TAP	Capital gains — add together

Watch this one: this table splits two ways. The four CGT concession columns go to one field; the two Index capital gains columns go to another.

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
Other capital gains TAP	Capital gains — add together
Other capital gains TAP - CBMI	Capital gains — add together
Other capital gains TAP excluding NCMI	Capital gains — add together
Other capital gains TAP - NCMI	Capital gains — add together
Other capital gains non-TAP	Capital gains — add together

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
Foreign capital gains - Indexation method	Capital gains — add together
Foreign offset CGT - Indexed	20O — add together
Foreign capital gains - Discounted method	Discounted capital gains — add together
Foreign offset CGT - Discounted method	20O — add together
Foreign capital gains - Other	Capital gains — add together
Foreign offset credits - Other	20O — add together
Foreign capital gains - Concessional method	CGT concession — add together

18A and 18H: Sharesight fills these in for you. Don't copy them from the front of your report — they also include gains and losses from your own buying and selling, which Sharesight already works out from your trades.

TFN withholding credits and non-resident withholding tax

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
TFN withholding credits	13R
Non-resident withholding tax	13A — no Sharesight field, do not enter

AMIT cost base net amount information

Vanguard column	Sharesight field
Excess (reduce cost base)	AMIT decrease
Shortfall (increase cost base)	AMIT increase

Use this per-fund table, which lists each fund by code. The two-line AMIT summary earlier in the report nets excess against shortfall across all funds and can't be split back out.

Repeat for each fund until every holding has its own set of components entered.

Tip — reconcile at the right level. Each fund's distributions in Sharesight should add up to that fund's totals in the per-fund section of your Annual Tax Report. The summary figures at the front of the report will only match the sum across all your holdings, not any single fund.

Last updated 1st September 2026

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