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Foreign Taxes on Dividends Incorrectly Documented by Our Broker
We currently use eTrade as our broker and supplier of
transactions to the Bivio feed. We own two foreign stocks
that pay regular dividends and the information supplied by
eTrade is not complete enough for Bivio to process what we
need to match our 1099 at the end of the year without manual
intervention.
When we get dividend transactions that have foreign taxes
paid eTrade provides a Dividend Net Amount that has foreign
taxes paid and any fees removed but only provides foreign
taxes and fees in text description form. At tax time our
dividend amount for our foreign stocks do not match the
broker's 1099.
We can work around it by making manual adjustments (assuming
the information is on the broker's monthly statement) but it
makes the treasurer's job just a bit more difficult than it
needs to be.
So my question - if you get foreign taxes in dividends does
your broker provide the information that Bivio needs to
provide accuracy?

Changing brokers is no fun but does your club's broker
provide detailed foreign dividend that Bivio can use?
Would appreciate any help.