Since the proceeds involve such small amounts, it's very unlikely that you will be haunted by this in the future. When you go back to review the entries, for the date acquired field, you could select the button "Something other than a date" and then select "Various (or more than one date)" from the dropdown. You can also enter a 0 for the Cost or other basis. On a later screen called "We noticed you entered zero for your cost basis . . . Let us know if you'd like to make any changes", if you know your cost basis you can select that option and a box will appear to enter your actual cost basis. Otherwise, select the other option and Continue.
Another possible option: since you are missing dates of acquisition, and do have several sales, one option would be to report a sales section total which won't require inputting any date information - the only downfall to this option is that you will need to mail a copy of the 1099-B with a Form 8453 that will get printed.
If you want to try this option, go ahead and delete the entries you made for your original 1099-B entries for this by clicking the trash can to the right of each line item. Once you do that:
- Click +Add investment on the page "Let's finish pulling your investment income"
- Click Skip Import on the next page
- Click on the Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds tile, then click Continue
- Enter the name of the Brokerage on the 1099-B, then add optional information if you want to - click Continue
- Answer the questions on the next page, answering that you have more than 3 sales as Yes
- Use Sales section totals, then click Continue - then Continue on the next page
- Sales section is Short-term basis not reported
- Enter the proceeds in the first box of the sales section totals and put 0 in for basis in the 2nd box.
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