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You got this as a gift so you don't report this until you sell the stock.
As long as you still own the stock, there is nothing to report on your 2020 tax return.
When you do sell the stock, you will report the sale on your return and potentially owe capital gain tax on the proceeds of the sale since your basis (the amount you paid for the stock) is $0 because it was a gift.
No, the basis is NOT $0 because it was a gift. When sold, the basis is as the IRS says:
To figure out the basis of property you receive as a gift, you must know three amounts:
If the FMV of the property at the time of the gift is less than the donor's adjusted basis, your adjusted basis depends on whether you have a gain or loss when you dispose of the property.
Note: If you use the donor's adjusted basis for figuring a gain and get a loss, and then use the FMV for figuring a loss and get a gain, you have neither a gain nor loss on the sale or disposition of the property.
You don't report the purchase/receipt of any investment. You only report the sale. At that time, you will enter the value at purchase to determine if there was any gain or loss.
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