The IRS is grinning while feverishly rubbing its hands together.

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i mean you are free to keep paying tariff by writing irs extra check if you love tariff so much. Just don't drag the rest of us blue state into it. Keep paying that fat tariff if you red stater love tariff so much. Knock your self out.

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No ones paying anyone anymorr 🤹‍♂️ > No one paying rent > Landlord not paying bank > Bank not paying irs > Irs not paying gov > Gov not paying you > So this begs the question of whos losing the hardest?

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Yes if you don’t want the irs to get you with no lube.

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Reach back out to them & ask them to open a "Cost Basis Research case". Given that your cost basis is displaying "0.00" per share on those two tax lots, high probability that you transferred those shares in to this account historically & for some reason the cost basis didn't carry over. Best case scenario, they're able to find the cost basis information (higher probability if you moved these shares from one Etrade account to another/this Etrade account). Worst Case scenario, they'll give you push back saying they can't find the cost basis information from the account/broker your transfered those shares from & it will be between you & your tax professional to work this out with the IRS. - If you did transfer these shares in to Etrade from an external brokerage firm (hopefully they're still in business) you might be able to obtain the cost basis/trade confirmations with the originating brokerage that you can relay to your tax professional. Take a deep breath, you got time to sort this shit out. But then again, I'm no tax professional so you might be fucked. Good luck

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I turned my 401(k) into a 201(k), the IRS wasn’t happy with my evasion strategy.

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I went from owing 5k to getting 3k, all legal so pls no audit Mr IRS

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Just did my taxes... The IRS can suck my fat one

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