It is all too easy to make costly tax-return errors that attract unwanted IRS attention. Learn how to prevent mistakes in the 2020 tax season...
Major changes have occurred in tax-return reporting in recent years, making accurate tax-return reporting more complex and difficult...
For employees who received income from stock compensation or sales of company stock in 2019, there are major changes in IRS forms and reporting to be aware of for 2019 tax returns filed in 2020...
Whether you sell all the stock at exercise or hold the stock and later sell it, you need to complete Form 8949 and Schedule D for the year of your stock sale and file them with...
If you sold shares during the calendar year, your brokerage firm will issue IRS Form 1099-B by mid-February of the following year. This is an important document that you must have to complete your tax return for the year of sale...
Form 1099-B or the equivalent substitute statement is necessary for the accurate completion of your tax return. Five facts you must know about this reporting to avoid tax-return mistakes are...
When your W-2 income is added to the price you paid for the stock, this is your cost basis on your tax return. The table below presents the compensation portion of your tax basis for all types of stock grants and ESPPs...
This is an area in which mistakes often occur. The cost basis, also called the tax basis, is calculated in the following way...
When you exercise stock appreciation rights, depending on the plan's design and practices, you receive...
Let's first review the tax rules and the W-2 reporting. The tax basis for...
Employers usually withhold federal income taxes at the flat rate required for supplemental wages, which is...
Backup withholding is a form of tax withholding on income from stock sales, along with interest income, dividends, or other payments that are reported on...
If you are a nonresident alien and do not complete and file Form W-8BEN with the IRS upon receiving stock-sale proceeds, such as those stemming from equity awards, your brokerage firm will assess backup withholding on the proceeds. To reclaim backup withholding, take the following steps...
At a minimum, at the time of your SARs exercise your company will withhold taxes from the proceeds at the required federal withholding rate for supplemental income. However, depending on your income, this minimum withholding may not be enough. If so, you will need to...
Supplemental income, such as stock compensation, is subject to one of two flat rates that are linked to rates in the income tax brackets. When the income tax rates change, as they did with the...
A number of tax law provisions and interpretations that may affect your stock grants occur in...
Most companies base withholding on your employment status at the time of grant. If you work elsewhere or are retired at exercise or vesting, then...
A casualty or theft loss would allow you to deduct the lost amount against your ordinary income, subject to some limits. However, Treasury regulations and court rulings would probably stand in your way. Nevertheless, what you can do is...
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