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You must report all 1099-B transactions on Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses and you may need to use Form 8949, Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets. This is true even if there's no net capital gain subject to tax. You must first determine if you meet the holding period.

Specific share identification has to do with a type of investment accounting strategy. In this case, investors search for and try to obtain the most favorable tax treatment. Investors do this when they sell various holdings that they purchased at various prices and at different times.

The specific identification method of calculating the tax basis for shares is when you choose which shares of the same company or mutual fund that are purchased at different times and prices to sell. With this method, you choose the shares that will minimize your taxable gains or offset other gains.

Realized gains for funds are reported on Form 1099-DIV.

Specific share identification is an accounting strategy used by investors who wish to optimize their tax treatment when selling off their holdings. Specific share identification can only be utilized by investors who are selling holdings of the same asset they purchased at different times and prices.

A tax lot identification method is the way we determine which tax lots are to be sold when you have a position consisting of multiple purchases made on different dates at differing prices, and you enter a trade to sell only part of the position.

How should an ITR form be filed for income from stocks? If a taxpayer is treating the income from stocks as business income, then he or she has to fill out Form 'ITR 3," and if the income is treated as capital gains, then taxpayers have to fill out Form 'ITR-2' for both short-term and long term.