Tax implications for ETFs when underlying index changes

[spider]

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Direct to me would be "We will not distribute capital gains from the sale of S. Korea and Taiwan shares if they are removed from the index."

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They said that there are no gains to distribute in the first place, due to the in-kind transfer mechanism. Again, if you don't believe them, that's fine by me, but what they said is equivalent to what you are asking for w.r.t. taxes at the individual level.

[Jeff W]

You're prob. right. I guess I believe them, but I would not want to buy EEM regardless because of the ER--it was simpler/cheaper to just buy VEU for my international allocation. It is odd that EEM is so much more popular than VWO.