NEWS: New IRS Tax Rules Critical for Investors and Traders for 2011. Beginning January 1st of this year, the IRS now requires all U.S.-based brokerages to track the cost basis on equities for their investors, and send taxpayers and the government an annual form recording when investors sell shares. This legislation will allow the IRS to quickly identify investors who are misreporting their gains and losses. New Forms for Reporting 2011 Taxes. The IRS is implementing several key changes for 2011 that will have a big impact on how active traders and investors report gains and losses moving forward. Starting with 2011, taxpayers reporting trading and investment activity will have a new form to file along with their Schedule D, IRS Form 8949 "Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets". Some may be required to file three different version of the new form, depending on their trade history and broker reports. Why the change? The Form 8949 will help the IRS to better compare your reporting with broker reporting on the 1099-B and ensure that you are accounting for all of your trades...and taxable gains. With the IRS turning the spotlight on active traders, are you confident that all of your trades and wash sales are accounted for
properly this year? |