Tax preparation time is here and if you sold any securities in 2008, you will need the basis—the price you paid for them, to determine if you made or lost money on the sale. This may be easy to locate if you purchased them fairly recently, but what if you bought them years ago? Decades ago? How can you find out what you paid for a stock, fund, etc back in, say, 1982?
An effortless way to find out what the closing price was for a security on any given day is to go to http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/ or http://www.marketwatch.com/ . There you can enter the symbol for the security, the day it was purchased and then find the closing price on that date.
This is helpful information you’ll need when it comes to filling out those Schedule D forms.
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Thank you so much. This is very helpful!
Great advice. It is so much easier now than it was before the net. Thanks.
Working in the accounting field, I can tell you that this used to be a very time consuming process for the accountant and client. It is always good to know these sites that save so much time.
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