Your bear-spread was a strategy, not an investment. The two individual option positions you initiated were the investments. Each position could have been closed, while the other was left open. When it comes to reporting option trades on your tax return, each individual security is taxed, not the trade “strategy". Unless you can somehow get your broker to adjust your Form 1099-B to reflect the closing of the short position, you're stuck with a 2023 gain, and a 2024 loss.
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