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All my stock transactions are marked "needs review" but there are no errors.

This is a serious issue - TurboTax should fix it or offer a solution.  All the transactions my imports from Fidelity, Merrill, TDA, etc. have this "NEEDS REVIEW" orange button. The whole idea of using these downloads is to not go thru every transaction and fix the NEEDS REVIEW issue - I have over 1000 transactions and do not have time to manually fix each one of it.

DaveF1006
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All my stock transactions are marked "needs review" but there are no errors.

According to this Turbo Tax categories, "If you’ve imported info for stocks, options, crypto, bonds, and/or mutual funds, and you have more than 25 transactions that need review, you could be missing any of the following:

 

  • Cost basis
  • Date acquired
  • Description
  • Proceeds
  • Date sold

There are a couple of ways to fix this issue.

 

Use summary filing

Re-entering your sales using summary filing can help you avoid having to re-enter your sales one by one. Here’s how you can use summary filing:

  1. On the Investment summary screen, delete the sales you imported from your financial institution to prevent any duplicates.
    • Skip steps 2 and 3 if you imported sales from that financial institution only. You will automatically be directed to the Did you sell stocks? screen.
  2. Navigate to stock sales:
    • TurboTax Online or Mobile: Go to stock sales.
    • TurboTax Desktop: Search for stock sales, and select the Jump to link.
  3. For Did you sell stocks?, select Yes. If you land on Your investments and sales, select Add investments.
  4. On the Let's import your tax info screen, select Enter a different way.
  5. Select Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, and then Continue.
  6. Answer the questions, and when prompted with Now, choose how to enter your sales, select Sales section totals and Continue.
  7. You'll now be able to enter the total proceeds (sales) and cost basis, along with the sales category.
    • Refer to your 1099-B for the amounts and category.
  8. When finished, select Continue.
  9. You can add additional sales totals by selecting the Add another sales total on the Review your sales section totals screen."

Before you delete entries be sure you have a copy of a brokerage statement handy so that can report summary details from each category listed on the statement.

 

@GeorgiaTechMan 

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Yb11
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All my stock transactions are marked "needs review" but there are no errors.

Hallelujah! Thank you so much! The horizontal scroll bar is just above “Add another sale” at the bottom. I was so frustrated trying to figure out how to “review” the sales. I’m using a laptop in full screen so there’s lots of blank white area to the right and bottom. The scroll bar didn’t show unless you happened to click on it. Many thanks!

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