Brokers¶
You need to provide the transaction history for each of your accounts, covering all transactions since you first acquired any shares owned during the relevant tax years. Pick your broker below for export instructions.
| Broker | CLI option | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Schwab | --schwab-file, --schwab-award-file |
Equity awards supported |
| Freetrade | --freetrade-file |
Activity CSV export |
| Hargreaves Lansdown | --hl-dir |
Tax Centre CSVs plus contract notes |
| Interactive Brokers | --interactive-brokers-file |
Transaction history CSV |
| Morgan Stanley | --mssb-dir |
Alphabet equity-award report folder |
| Sharesight | --sharesight-dir |
Multi-broker portfolio tracker |
| Trading 212 | --trading212-dir |
Folder of yearly exports |
| Vanguard | --vanguard-file |
Client Transactions Listing CSV |
| RAW format | --raw-file |
Generic fallback for other brokers |
Dates and time zones¶
UK share matching and the tax year boundary run on UK calendar days. Freetrade and Trading 212 timestamp each transaction in UTC, and cgt-calc converts those to UK time before taking the date. Every other export above states a date with no time, so cgt-calc reads that date as the broker wrote it and cannot correct one that was recorded in another time zone.
If your broker is not listed, try the RAW format. Contributions for new brokers are very welcome — see Adding a broker.