Report error with "Income-Reinvested" transaction

Dec 26, 2006 1 Replies

With Q 2006 Premier Rel QA5 on WinXP I have observed a reports problem that could result in erroneous tax returns. I do not use TT so I do not know if that would be affected.



Manual or downloaded dividend entries for mutual funds and stocks are entered either as "Receipts of Cash Income" or "Income-Reinvested". This applies to dividends, interest, and all capital gains.



If I use the Reinvested transaction to record the dividend and shares received AND then request a "Spending-Itemized Categories" Report I find that NONE of the transactions are included in the report. If I use a "Receipts of Cash Income" transaction and then a "Buy-Shares Bought" transaction then ALL of the transactions are included in the report.



The easiest transaction to use for manual entry is Reinvest but that produces an erroneous report. If one makes a customized Total Capital Gains report including Realized Gains, Dividends, and Cap Gains (those indicated by a leading "_") then that report is also in error.



Is this a known bug? If not, I hope that someone else will confirm what I see and then we can report it to Q.


Yes, this is a known bug; reported as early as December 2005. Intuit knows about it.

As far as I know, it only affects the one report. You can get correct category totals with transaction details by subtotalling the Banking Transaction report by category. The Income/Expense report, the Tax Schedule and Tax Summary report also correctly use reinvestment transactions, among others.

But this is not a bug. The Capital Gains report has always reported "capital gains" only; never "capital gains distributions". "Capital gains distributions" are not the same as "capital gains".

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