The tax drag of a strategy is the reduction in its annual return caused by taxes: transaction taxes on its turnover, withholding taxes on the dividends and interest it receives that it cannot reclaim, and taxes on its gains, for a given investor and jurisdiction.
firm.signoff.tax_drag.| gross | turn- | dividend | regime 1 | regime 2 | regime 3 | |
| strategy | return | over | yield | |||
| statistical arbitrage | 12.0 | 40 | 1.0 | 11.85 | 8.00 | 3.85 |
| momentum | 9.0 | 6 | 1.5 | 8.77 | 6.00 | 7.58 |
| value | 7.0 | 0.8 | 3.5 | 6.48 | 6.60 | 6.31 |
fm_finance.tax_table.