Video on Tax Return Reporting of Stock Sales from Equity Compensation

See http://bit.ly/1j0k6Xa . In the Tax Center at myStockOptions.com, view the animated presentation about reporting company stock sales on tax returns. It covers IRS Form 1099-B and cost-basis reporting, along with IRS Form 8949 and Schedule D, the expanded reporting on Form 1099-B, and why the reported cost basis may be wrong or omitted when the stock sold is from equity compensation.

Topics covered include:

• how to figure out the right cost basis for your stock sales


• Form 8949 (revised again for this tax season) and how to report stock sales on it


• how to interpret Form 1099-B when completing Form 8949


• what to do when the cost basis in Box 3 of Form 1099-B is too low or not given


• totaling the reported stock sales on the revised Schedule D