Tax Reporting

Tax Reporting

Interactive Brokers provides a variety of useful tools and information for your tax reporting needs.

Tax Optimizer

Manage your stock, option, bond, warrant and single-stock future gains and losses for tax purposes in our Java-based Tax Optimizer:

  • Select one of several tax lot-matching methods to change the default tax lot-matching method for your account, for the current day or for a specific symbol.
  • Change the lot-matching method on the fly to immediately see the effect on your gains and losses.
  • Manually match specific sales to open tax lots.

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Tax Reporting

Forex Income Worksheet

Review your forex income and loss on our Forex Income Worksheet:

  • View income and loss information from your completed currency transactions for the year.
  • Includes forex spot trades and trades in securities denominated in a nonfunctional currency.
  • Includes detailed information about the acquisition and disposition of each nonfunctional currency transaction that closed in the year just ended.

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Easy Access to Tax Forms

Log into Account Management to access important annual tax forms:

  • Available in PDF, HTML or MS Excel format, depending on the form.
  • View and download tax forms, including Form 1099, Gain/Loss Worksheet for 1256 Contracts, and more.
  • Get tax forms for the last five years.
  • Customers with multiple account structures can get tax forms for closed accounts.

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Free Tax Webinars

Register for one of our free tax webinars or view one of our recorded tax webinars at our Traders' University. We offer free webinars on several tax-related subjects, including:

  • Managing Capital Gains with Tax Optimizer
  • US Tax Reporting for Stocks and Options
  • US Tax Reporting for Regulated Futures and Other Section 1256 Contracts and more!

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Important Tax Reporting Information

Our Tax Reporting web pages include a wealth of important tax-related information, including:

  • A list of all tax forms and reports for the current tax year, with links to the actual PDF forms.
  • Information for US, Canadian and other non-US persons and entities.
  • Tax reporting for wash sales.
  • Frequently Asked Questions and more!

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