Tax Reporting

Tax Management Tools and Tax Reporting

Interactive Brokers provides a variety of useful tools and information for your tax reporting needs.

Use Tax Optimizer to manage your stock, option, bond and warrant gains and losses for tax purposes.
Our Forex Income Worksheet lets you view income and loss from your completed currency transactions.
Easy access to tax forms
Free tax education resources, including Webinars and Traders’ Academy courses
Charitable giving directly from your IBKR account
Important Tax Reporting Information

Our Tax Reporting web pages include a wealth of important tax-related information, including:

A list of all tax forms and reports for the current tax year, with links to the actual PDF forms.
Information for US, Canadian and other non-US persons and entities.
Tax reporting for wash sales
Frequently Asked Questions

Manage your stock, option, bond and warrant gains and losses for tax purposes with Tax Optimizer:

Select one of several tax lot-matching methods to change the default tax lot-matching method for your account, for the current day or for a specific symbol.
Change the lot-matching method on the fly to immediately see the effect on your gains and losses.
Manually match specific sales to open tax lots.
Access Tax Optimizer from Trader Workstation (TWS), IBKR Mobile and Client Portal.

Review your foreign exchange income and loss on our Forex Income Worksheet:

View income and loss information from your completed currency transactions for the year
Includes foreign exchange spot trades in securities denominated in a nonfunctional currency
Includes detailed info about the acquisition and disposition of each nonfunctional currency transaction closed in the preceding year

PDF, HTML and MS Excel formats available
View and download tax forms, including Form 1099, Gain/Loss for 1256 contracts and more from a reporting dashboard
Current year and five previous years of info available
Clients with multiple account structures can access tax forms for closed accounts

IBKR Campus provides several free resources to help you understand and prepare your tax reporting.

Participate in upcoming tax webinars or view our library of more than a dozen tax-related webinars.
Traders’ Academy offers free courses on taxes concerning dividends, capital gains and losses, net investment income tax, tax treatment of retirement accounts, as well as tax-related topics for those who reside outside of the US.

Clients of IBLLC can donate directly to qualified charities directly from their brokerage and retirement accounts.

For brokerage accounts, clients can transfer securities from their account to a qualified 501(c)(3) charity so long as the security is a stock, warrant or bond. The security must be eligible for transfer via DTC and the receiving charity must be able to accept DTC transfers.
For IRA accounts, distributions can be made directly to a qualified charity and the max donation is limited to the lesser of your required minimum distribution or USD 100,000.
IBKR GIVE lets US clients align their IMPACT values with non-profit organizations and make cash donations directly from the app. Using a comprehensive directory of US charities and non-profit organizations from GuideStar by Candid, GIVE lets clients easily donate to a charity matching their values or search for a non-profit of their choice.