Do I handle long term uncovered the same as covered?
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Yes, there is no difference in the way they are entered or treated in TurboTax.
The only difference is that the IRS now requires financial companies to track your cost basis. If you happen to change financial agents then you would need to do some of your own calculations after the change.
In 2008, Congress passed legislation which required brokers to report the cost basis for securities and mutual funds to both the investors and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), effective tax year 2011
the difference between covered and noncovered shares is who keeps track of the cost basis.
Holding Periods:
there is a difference depending how you enter it
if you enter it as a 'sales summary' you will asked to mail the details/1099-B to the IRS.
if you do not have many sales of this type and enter it as 'one by one' with the details it will put the transactions on Form 8949 and you should be able to avoid mailing anything.
the same applies to covered securities with any sort of adjustment (wash sales, AMD etc).
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