Special Edition: Reporting Options Trades for Taxes

This week, an entire Tax Forum about reporting options trades on your tax return. We won't discuss here what options are or how to use them. For that, browse past Options Forums in the archive. (By the way, we gave Options Forum the week off, since this column is killing two birds with one stone, so to speak.)

But before we get to options, a reminder: If you put your 1998 tax return on extension back in August, your drop-dead filing deadline is midnight Friday, Oct. 15. So if you have any under-the-gun questions, send them quickly to [e-mail]. We'll try to answer them in a bonus midweek Tax Forum.

Calls and Puts

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