KrisD15
Expert Alumni

Investors & landlords

If you use "Withhold to cover" versus "sell to cover" there are no sales for you to report. 

Your employer kept those shares and paid you via Box 1 on your W-2. 

 

They paid you the value of those shares, so there is no capital gain to report and the sales income is in your wages. 

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