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As a follow-up to @DavidD66, are you entering your transactions as a regular stock trade? In other words, you can avoid the screens relating to RSUs, vesting, sell to cover, etc. and just treat each sale as you would the sale of publicly traded stock. Thus, at the screen, Was this a sale of employee stock?, you can select No, this is not employee stock, and avoid all of the RSU related screens.
Your purchase date (i.e., vesting date) is the same for all three sale transactions, and your per share basis for each sale is also the same. Because your sales occurred on three different dates, your per share sale price may be different, and because you sold a different number of shares on the dates in question, your sales proceeds will vary depending on the number of shares sold. After entering this information, you will know whether you had a gain or loss. It appears any gain or loss will be short-term.
The first two transactions you mentioned in your post--the sale of the seven shares, followed by the sale of the 1 share--are those the eight shares that were sold to cover? If so, then it is likely you will have no gain/loss upon their sale because they were probably sold at the same price as the vesting price. Thus, if you know the vesting price per share, you should be able to determine whether there was a gain or loss from their sale. In most cases, there is usually no gain/loss, but after you enter your information, you can confirm whether a gain or loss was realized. Additionally, the compensation represented by the RSUs has already been included on your W-2, so there is no need to enter any wage compensation information in connection with your RSUs vesting.
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