Please understand that this issue is not on how to fill out the form, but rather about getting TT to do it automatically since lots of us have hundreds of these to "fix." Some brokerages report the information in a way TT likes and others don't... E-Trade and Robinhood specifically do it wrong. What we are asking is for TT to ingest the 1099s from these brokerages and fill out the 8949 satisfactorily knowing full well how said brokerages report these transactions...right or wrong. Also understand that E-Trade has been reporting it this way for years and up until last year TT had no issues dealing with it. In fact, TT Deluxe desktop edition that you install on your computer handles these transactions by just reporting non adjusted box A entries and for those it matches the dates that E-Trade used. IRS has never rejected my returns filed this way.
