If you sell stock, you need to know its cost basis in order to calculate your profits and losses. The cost basis is the amount you pay for the stock, including commissions. Each time you buy shares, ...

For most advisers, the broader cost-basis reporting rules due to take effect next year will not change their lives directly. Normally, they provide information to clients about the adjusted cost basis ...

Cost basis is the purchase cost of a particular security, including commission charges. Importantly, a cost basis can be established over a series of purchases of the same security, not just one trade ...

Selling an investment typically has tax consequences. To figure out whether you need to report a capital gain -- or can claim a loss -- after you sell, you need to know the cost basis for that ...

WASHINGTON — Be careful what you wish for with regard to cost basis reporting, as it might cause a headache of colossal proportions. The president’s fiscal 2008 budget proposal, presented to Congress ...

Selling an investment typically has tax consequences. To figure out whether you need to report a gain-or can claim a loss-after you sell, you need to know the cost basis for that investment. For ...