I have almost 300 transactions via Robinhood and this is going to take hours to change this one box to say I purchased them myself. I really don't want to spend hours doing this.
The problem is that the IRS expects each transaction looked at in case of any of the transactions were loss due to personal use, such as lunch at Starbucks or payments towards bills, etc. Loss on use of personal property should not be included on your return. The gains are included along with any transactions that were investment related.
If you want to do this outside of the program and then enter only two lines,
If you do the summary, you can just mail a copy of your Robinhood forms to the IRS. The program will give you instructions.
That's fine that they want to see each transaction. But do I have to go through each individual transaction and change the box to say that I purchased them? Is there a way to do that in mass, so as to not spend hours checking a box 300 times?
No, there is not a option to do a bulk entry that applies to all of your transactions.
@AmyC is providing the only alternative to correcting each entry one at a time.
same problem for me... I got 200+ transactions on stock/option trades. it took forever to adjust one by one. super annoying!
This is very painful. I cannot understand where Amy C is providing how to bulk update for this. Biggest pain in the neck.
You may enter the summary information instead of each individual transaction. Your provider may be providing information in IRS form 1099-B or IRS form 8949 format.
Create a .PDF of the IRS form 1099-B to upload into TurboTax Premium Online. Follow these steps.