ETFs & Shares treated as Interest rather than CG

[paultilling]

I have heard that certain foreign shares and ETFs gains are treated as interest rather than capital gains by HMRC.
Capital losses cannot be set against capital gains etc.. Has anyone any knowledge of this and is there a list of these available?
Any advice most welcome. Thank you.
PT

[maths]

Does ms7dcml's post above yours not deal with your query?

[paultilling]

I'm sorry maths, I don't understand your reply. Can you elaborate please?
PT

[rr296]

Bit late for perhaps still useful

I think you are referring to:

• Non-reporting funds - which is any fund (incl. ETF) that is not a reporting fund. HMRC publish and regularly update a list of all funds that have reporting status. Gains on these are taxed as income (not interest per se but boils down to the same thing) rather than at CGT rates and no capital loss is available

• Bond funds - which is any reporting fund (incl. ETF) that has "more that 60% by value of its investments in debt type assets at any time during an investing company’s accounting period. Dividends from these are taxed as interest. Gains / losses are dealt with as normal"

Hope still helpful for someone...