Dividend calendar — when distributions land and why the date matters

Ex-dates for the selected distributing funds are placed in the month they fall, and the country toggle changes both the commentary and the broker set used to price a reinvestment. The Dutch note is the one with real money in it: cash held on 1 January is assessed at the savings deemed rate of 1.28% rather than the investment rate of 6.00%, so an uninvested year-end balance is taxed more lightly than the same value inside a fund. The German note is the mirror image via the Basisertrag, and the Belgian and Italian notes exist to say that nothing here applies to them.

THE DISTRIBUTION DATA IS NOT COLLECTED YET, and this page shows the empty state rather than pretending otherwise: every distributing fund is currently marked as having no data, because ex-dates and per-unit amounts are transcribed from each issuer's own disclosures with a source link rather than pulled from a market-data feed, and that transcription has not been done. The tax commentary below the calendar is live and correct today; the calendar itself will populate when the underlying documents are collected. The reinvestment cost shown is a single broker commission and ignores the spread.

Why is the calendar empty?

Because no issuer-published distribution history has been transcribed for these funds yet. This site republishes only figures that carry a link to the document they came from, which rules out taking ex-dates from a market-data feed, and the collection work for distributions has not been done. An empty calendar that says so is preferable to a populated one whose provenance nobody can check.

Does a December ex-date actually save me money in the Netherlands?

A little, and only because of where the cash is sitting on one specific day. The 1 January snapshot assesses cash at the low savings deemed rate and investments at the much higher one, so a dividend received in December and left uninvested over the new year is taxed more lightly than the same value would have been inside the fund. The effect is small, it lasts one day, and reinvesting immediately costs a commission — which is usually the larger number.

Does the timing matter in Belgium or Italy?

No, and that is worth stating positively rather than leaving as an absence. Neither country assesses wealth on a single-day snapshot: the Belgian transaction tax is charged per trade whenever it happens, and the Italian stamp duty is calculated on the annual statement balance. There is no date to plan around, so the only timing question left is whether reinvesting is worth its commission.

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