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Ticking that particular method really goes nowhere. If you look closely at that page you'll notice that all that happens is a new paragraph shows up lower down on the page.
"If you received this stock as a result of a merger, spin-off, stock dividend, or similar corporate activity, please answer the question above with respect to the original stock you owned before the exchange."
TurboTax really can't help you here.
You're actually pretty luck here as you have 2 possible sales to report. The first sale occurred when you sold your Dell stock for a combination of cash and VMware tracking stock. ($24.05 in cash and .11146 shares of DVMT stock for each Dell share tendered.) The actual income tax reporting of this sale is very complex and per the Form 8937 issued by Dell they are recommending a
two-part treatment of the transaction consisting of:
Tom Young
Ticking that particular method really goes nowhere. If you look closely at that page you'll notice that all that happens is a new paragraph shows up lower down on the page.
"If you received this stock as a result of a merger, spin-off, stock dividend, or similar corporate activity, please answer the question above with respect to the original stock you owned before the exchange."
TurboTax really can't help you here.
You're actually pretty luck here as you have 2 possible sales to report. The first sale occurred when you sold your Dell stock for a combination of cash and VMware tracking stock. ($24.05 in cash and .11146 shares of DVMT stock for each Dell share tendered.) The actual income tax reporting of this sale is very complex and per the Form 8937 issued by Dell they are recommending a
two-part treatment of the transaction consisting of:
Tom Young
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