Someone please tell me how to do our partnership taxes, we only invest in mutual funds. We didn't sell any in 2017. Do we only report dividends as income?
Please Help.
Peter Dunkelberger on
Did your broker or the funds send you a year end tax document?
Someone please tell me how to do our partnership taxes, we only invest in mutual funds. We didn't sell any in 2017. Do we only report dividends as income?
Please Help.
Linda Glein on
Please excuse my ignorance, but if you are using Bivio, doesn't it do that for you?
Someone please tell me how to do our partnership taxes, we only invest in mutual funds. We didn't sell any in 2017. Do we only report dividends as income?
Please Help.
Paul Madison on
I think it is misleading to say Bivio does your taxes. That is like saying TurboTax does your taxes. Bivio provides a process and a program for filling out your tax submission for your partnership but there is no just "doing it for you", The club/treasurer has work that must be done to assure what is submitted is correct.
The club must follow the steps of doing an audit on the books, basically comparing that what the broker has agrees with what is in your accounting records in Bivio. Next they must check that the items on the club's 1099 form, which comes from the broker and is submitted to the IRS as well as the club, agrees with Bivio. This includes making sure that dividends are properly reported and that all sales are correct not just the sales values but for more recently acquired positions the broker will report a cost basis as well to the IRS. It is important that this information agrees with Bivio. If it doesn't than more than likely a step in the process has not been done such as doing the annual audit. If Bivio does not agree, bivio support can help steer you into what you need to do and or they offer a paid concierge service to help get the records correct.
By the way for any club just now working on their taxes you already have a problem since partnership filings were due to be mailed in by March 15th.
Someone please tell me how to do our partnership taxes, we only invest in mutual funds. We didn't sell any in 2017. Do we only report dividends as income?
Please Help.
I think it is misleading to say Bivio does your taxes. That is like saying TurboTax does your taxes. Bivio provides a process and a program for filling out your tax submission for your partnership but there is no just "doing it for you", The club/treasurer has work that must be done to assure what is submitted is correct.
The club must follow the steps of doing an audit on the books, basically comparing that what the broker has agrees with what is in your accounting records in Bivio. Next they must check that the items on the club's 1099 form, which comes from the broker and is submitted to the IRS as well as the club, agrees with Bivio. This includes making sure that dividends are properly reported and that all sales are correct not just the sales values but for more recently acquired positions the broker will report a cost basis as well to the IRS. It is important that this information agrees with Bivio. If it doesn't than more than likely a step in the process has not been done such as doing the annual audit. If Bivio does not agree, bivio support can help steer you into what you need to do and or they offer a paid concierge service to help get the records correct.
By the way for any club just now working on their taxes you already have a problem since partnership filings were due to be mailed in by March 15th.
Someone please tell me how to do our partnership taxes, we only invest in mutual funds. We didn't sell any in 2017. Do we only report dividends as income?
Please Help.
Linda Glein on
I stand corrected. I meant more like, doesn't Bivio's structure guide you through it?
Even that might be an overstatement.
I wasn't speaking from experience. Which will change soon.
I think it is misleading to say Bivio does your taxes. That is like saying TurboTax does your taxes. Bivio provides a process and a program for filling out your tax submission for your partnership but there is no just "doing it for you", The club/treasurer has work that must be done to assure what is submitted is correct.
The club must follow the steps of doing an audit on the books, basically comparing that what the broker has agrees with what is in your accounting records in Bivio. Next they must check that the items on the club's 1099 form, which comes from the broker and is submitted to the IRS as well as the club, agrees with Bivio. This includes making sure that dividends are properly reported and that all sales are correct not just the sales values but for more recently acquired positions the broker will report a cost basis as well to the IRS. It is important that this information agrees with Bivio. If it doesn't than more than likely a step in the process has not been done such as doing the annual audit. If Bivio does not agree, bivio support can help steer you into what you need to do and or they offer a paid concierge service to help get the records correct.
By the way for any club just now working on their taxes you already have a problem since partnership filings were due to be mailed in by March 15th.
Someone please tell me how to do our partnership taxes, we only invest in mutual funds. We didn't sell any in 2017. Do we only report dividends as income?
Please Help.