Date acquired is the date they vested. That is when the value of the stock which vested was added as income in Box 1 of your W-2.
Yes, date sold is the date sold, the date sold to cover.
Proceeds should not have been zero, I'm sure they sold for SOMETHING
You may not have SEEN the money for the sales, but the sales resulted in revenue, and that revenue was withheld for federal taxes.
It wasn't profit for you because whatever they sold for was also part of your wages reported in Box 1.
What you want to do is report NO GAIN and the way you do that is to report your basis as the same as the sale proceeds for those stocks. (it could be slightly different which could result in a small gain or loss)
So if 100 shares vested and 32% were sold to cover, 32 shares were sold.
If each share was worth $10, you had 1,000 added to your W-2 as wage income.
Your basis for each share is $10.
If 32 shares sold for $320, but your basis was 320, there was no gain.
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