What Is Form 1099-B: Proceeds From Broker and Barter Exchange Transactions? Form 1099-B, used by brokerages and barter exchanges, records taxpayer gains and losses annually. It helps taxpayers ...

Investors should receive their 1099-B and 1099-S forms from their financial institutions by Feb. 15 this year. The deadline for investment firms to provide 1099 forms to clients for many years was Jan ...

Form 1099-B is an information return used to report broker or barter exchange transactions, including proceeds from securities transactions, stock sales, and other financial exchanges. Form 1099-S is ...

The 1099-B has blank in the cost basis (1e), "Check if basis reported to IRS" (3) is not checked, and "Check if noncovered security" (5) is checked. If the stock was a bonus from work would the cost ...

Although the Internal Revenue Service began accepting tax returns in the last week of January, you're in good company if you haven't started working on yours. After all, the tax filing deadline of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce makes the law and tax code understandable to everyone. One of the trickiest areas in correctly reporting stock sales on your ...

This story appears in the Feb. 12, 2012 issue of Forbes Magazine. It’s that time of year when envelopes marked “Important Tax Return ­Document Enclosed” come in the mail, mixed in with the credit card ...

Some brokerage customers of Fidelity Investments won’t receive Forms 1099-B until after the newly extended Feb. 17 general deadline for sending out the information returns, the company said Thursday.