Investors & landlords

normally, the way this works is the employer will sell the shares and place the net into your W-2.   is that what occurred?  if so, there is NOTHING additional to report into TT.  It's all in your W-2. 

 

let's say you had 500 RSUs and on the day they vested the stock was selling for $10.  The taxes (federal, state, social security, medicare) were $2000.  So the company would have sold 200 shares to cover the taxes and then gave you the remaining 300 shares.  Your W-2 would reflect income of $5000 and then the withholdings for the $2000 would be scattered into federal , state, medicare and social security lines.

 

You don't receive any cash, but you do receive the 300 shares in this example.  your cost basis in these shares are 300.  Whenever you eventually sell, the gain or loss associated with these shares will be pegged to $10 per share.  But these sell transactions are not to be reported into TT until you actually sell!