That is one option as it appears you already know the amount of your compensation income. There is another option which may be more efficient and allow you to avoid having to respond to questions which may not be relevant to your tax situation. Now whether or not you received a Form 1099-B, there are two employee stock situations when you must answer Yes to the question about whether you have employee stock. The two situations are when you have Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) stock and your employer did not include any "compensation income" in your Form W-2 (it's very uncommon for employers to fail to do this), or any time you sell stock acquired through an Incentive Stock Option (ISO) plan. In all other cases, you only need to answer Yes to the question about having an employee stock sale if you don't know the cost basis and need help finding it, or you think you already have the correct cost basis but would like us to walk you through how your cost basis is determined to confirm it's correct. Otherwise, you can answer No to skip several unnecessary questions.
Thus, you might consider going back and deleting your responses indicating that the stock in question was ESPP stock. Then review the results and follow-up with us regarding your entries, whether they look correct or need further adjustment.
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