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Investors & landlords
If you sold 100% of all of your holdings in the underlying Wash Sale stock in November, you should be Okay regardless of what broker you used. The reported Wash Sales are not recorded directly on your tax return. Instead, the cost basis of the underlying stock is increased. The result is that when you finally sell the underlying stock it will be a bigger loss or a smaller gain.
Provided all of the stock was sold in November, you will not have to be concerned with figuring out the cost basis between multiple brokers.
A wash sale occurs when an investor closes out a position at a loss and buys the same security (or a substantially similar one) within the 61-day wash sale period. Wash sale rules are designed to prevent investors from creating a deductible loss for the purpose of offsetting gains with only a short interruption in owning the security.
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