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  1. Click 'Get Form' to open the IRS Form 8949 (2012) in the editor.
  2. Begin by entering your social security number or taxpayer identification number at the top of the form. Next, fill in your name as shown on your tax return.
  3. Determine if your transactions are short-term or long-term. For short-term transactions, check Box A, B, or C based on whether basis was reported to the IRS.
  4. In Part I for short-term transactions, list each transaction's description, date acquired, date sold, proceeds, cost basis, and any adjustments in the respective columns.
  5. For long-term transactions in Part II, repeat the process: check the appropriate box and fill out the required fields similarly.
  6. Finally, add up totals for each section and ensure they correspond with your Schedule D lines before saving your work.
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If you have a great deal of investment activity reported on Form 1099-B, you can enter the aggregate proceeds from your short-term transactions directly on Schedule D instead of individually listing each security in your Form 8949.
If you exchange or sell capital assets, report them on your federal tax return using Form 8949: Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets. You will report the totals of Form 8949 on Schedule D of Form 1040.
If you must report capital gains and losses from an investment in the past year, youll need to file Form 8949. This is an IRS form used by individuals, partnerships, and corporations to report both short- and long-term capital gains and losses from investment exchanges and sales.
The key difference between Form 4797 and Form 8949 is that Form 4797 is for selling or exchanging property used in a trade or business or for profit, while Form 8949 is specifically for capital assets. If you sold capital assets used in your business, you may have to file both Form 4797 and Form 8949.
Corporations and partnerships use Form 8949 to report the following. The sale or exchange of a capital asset not reported on another form or schedule. Gain or loss on the sale or exchange by a foreign corporation of an interest in a partnership that is engaged in a U.S. trade or business.
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While Schedule D (included on Form 1040) is typically used to report capital gain or loss transactions, Form 8949 must be completed first. The transactions you report on Form 8949 are reported by brokerages every year to the IRS, and will be reported to you on Form 1099-B.
This form is generated within the PDF of your return based on the information entered by the user. The most common section of the program used to generate Form 8949, is the Investments section.
In 2011, however, the Internal Revenue Service created a new form, Form 8949, that some taxpayers will have to file along with their Schedule D and 1040 forms.

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