zpeng
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How to apply wash sale loss from deep ITM option to stock gain

I have a tricky wash sale loss situation and need help, it involves wash sale between deep ITM option and stock.

 

1. I owned stock SHOP and sold a covered call. But as SHOP stock price increased, I bought back the call when it's deep in the money. This is a loss.

2. In the same time, I bought 100 SHOP stock. 

 

1+ 2 --> becomes a wash sale of $1k.

 

3. After 30d of the buy action in 2), I sold the 100 SHOP stock at higher price, with 3k gain. 

 

The problem is:

because of the wash sale loss deferral rule, I believe that the actual gain for the whole series should be 3k - 1k = 2k. But the tax form issued by Charles Schwab only noted my disallowed wash sale loss, but not the the adjusted gain. How should I fix this issue, asking Charles Schwab to correct it on 1099, or manual adjust cost basis on Turbotax?

 

Thanks,