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Investors & landlords
If the proceeds were only $1.20, enter the cost basis as $1. This approach will not have any effect on your taxes or create an error with the IRS (the net gain/loss will be "0").
This was probably the "sale" of a very small fractional share - the result of a reinvested stock dividend - that was automatically processed by the brokerage firm's computers to simplify their record keeping.
‎February 23, 2021
8:25 AM