Attach a Form 8949 statement
You can attach an acceptable statement to Form 8949, Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets instead of reporting each transaction separately in the statement window for the
Capital gain or (losses)
field in the Income
screen. If you submit an acceptable statement instead of separately entering each transaction, you need to attach the statement to the return as a PDF file.- Go to theIncomescreen and select the statement window button for theCapital gains or (losses)field.
- Enter the following in theStatements from Incomestatement window:
- See attachedfollowed by any additional descriptive text that associates this entry with an 8949 entry in the Description column.noteYou can also enterSee statementorSee stmntin the Description column.
- Variousin the Date Acquired and Date Sold columns
- Code1(short-term) or2(long-term) in the Force column to differentiate between short-term and long-term transactions.
- SelectEdit, thenElectronic Filing Attachments.
- SelectAdd.
- SelectFederalin theProductfield.
- SelectTax returnin theReturnfield.
- SelectForm 8949 Exception to reportingin theAttachment titlefield.
- SelectBrowseand attach the Form 8949 statement PDF from your computer.
- Create the electronic file.noteYou can attach more PDF documents that support Form 8949 to the electronic file.