Update: Solactive Dividend Taxation Methodology Enhancement

On November 2, 2021, Solactive AG announced the upcoming enhancements on its Dividend Taxation Methodology. 

Please find the Announcement Letter below outlining the taxation practices prevalent in several countries either with respect to the security types or pertaining to certain corporate actions.

As of December 1, 2021, Solactive AG will use the enhanced methodology described in Section 2.1.1.3 of the Solactive Equity Index Methodology available on https://www.solactive.com/documents/equity-index-methodology/. From this day onwards, the new Dividend Taxation Methodology will be applied to all existing and future indices that are administered by Solactive AG.

For third party indices, where Solactive AG is only the calculation agent, the index owners are kindly asked to approach Solactive AG to discuss the application of the enhanced Dividend Taxation Methodology to their index / indices.