Conflicting Tax Forms Create ‘Nightmares’ for Some Investors
- ‘Dirty little secret’ among advisers about flawed 1099-B forms
- Paper differences can put taxpayer in auditors’ crosshairs
Pedestrians pass in front of a TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. location in San Francisco.
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Brokerage firms are sending tax statements to clients and the IRS with information that differs from the taxes investors ultimately owe, leading some filers to appear to owe tax on profits they never made.
The federal tax code contains two sets of IRS rules -- one that defines what information on taxable gains and losses that brokerages must report to their clients and the IRS, and another that defines how individual taxpayers report those gains and losses on their returns.