ETF Dividend Payments

First Time Investing 🐣
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Good evening. I have recently noticed that all (as far as I can see) the ETF dividend yields on the HL app are reading as 0%. This never used to be the case - yields were (approximately) equal to that quote on FT.

My question is: does this mean ETF ‘dividends’ are not paid as dividends? i.e. could they be paid as income? And would this mean that dividends received from ETFs in a GIA would be taxable as income, rather than a dividend payment?

Hope that makes sense! Many thanks.

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Etf payments are dividends, NOT income. You don’t have to declare it.

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Ah ok, many thanks. So equities ETFs pay dividends, so to say. But am I right in saying that bond ETF payments are taxable as income? I’ve been searching the web for an answer but nothing definitive (!)