Can someone help me understand how loss reporting works with etrade? I trade through an LLC and last year through a small amount of very bad trades took a loss. My problem is that etrade shows a total short term gain of negative 53K with a deferred loss of 129K on the taxable losses screen. I am assuming the 129K (deferred) is wash sales? So what is the actual tax loss I can take through my LLC? Etrade says to ignore the deferred losses - they said it is garbage data. But if they are wash sales do I not get to realize those losses as well since I trade through the entity? I have traded through the entity for 6 years but have never had a significant loss to deal with. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thx!!!
Help Needed - LLC trading and wash sales
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"The IRS disregards the LLC entity if only a single member exists. This requires you to report all income and expenses of the LLC on a personal tax return. You accomplish this by reporting all LLC profits and losses on the Schedule C attachment to IRS Form 1040".
https://info.legalzoom.com/can-file-llc-personal-taxes-3620.html
https://info.legalzoom.com/can-file-llc-personal-taxes-3620.html
Did your LLC make a mark-to-market election?
Yeah...mtm for several years now. Just cannot figure out the E*trade deferred loss and I f I get to take the deferred loss plus the short term loss or if the short term is the actual loss...E*trade is very confusing in this point. My old 1099s showed the deferred loss as wash sale losses which I should get to take.
Google 'etrade deferred loss'