The broker that sent you the 1099-B is required to report the price you paid for the stock when you exercised your Non-Qualified Stock Options. However, your cost basis is not the price you paid, rather it is the cost you paid plus the amount that you were taxed on when you exercised them. You need to enter the cost basis as reported on the Form 1099-B, and then make an adjustment to your cost basis on a subsequent screen so that your cost basis equals the value of the stock at the time you exercised your options. That amount is the exercise price you paid, plus the "bargain element" that you were taxed on. If you exercised and sold at the same time, your gain/loss should be zero, or very close to it.
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