Claiming Capital gains on company stock.

[rtaft]

I'm trying to figure out how to claim my capital gains for stocks I purchased and had matched through work. I had "purchased" 25 shares of company stock which is on the Swedish exchange. After being terminated, the company matched my stocks, giving me another 25 and cashing out the value and returning it to me. Here is where it gets complicated for me, as the lack of accountability by this process has left me with rather uninformed with what goes on behind the scenes.

I paid in: 735.48 with biweekly 1% paycheck contributions into a fund which whole shares were eventually purchased from.
I received 1257.37 when it was cashed out. This was via wire transfer and not a paycheck. I have no information on what this value is comprised of, but it could consist of this:
Value of 50 shares converted from SEK->USD, SEK fee to cash it out, unknown conversion/transfer fees, unknown remainder of the 1% contribution fund, and US taxes withheld.


My pay statement claims 647.25 for the matched stocks (according to HR), taxing 49.51.
This tells me the value of 25 stocks should be 647.25, however 647.25x2=1294.50, $37 more than what was paid out. But if I got paid 1257.37, less 49.51 in taxes, then the value is really 1306.88? That's more than 1294.50.

So how to I claim this? If I take what I paid and subtracted that from what I got, then subtract what is already claimed on my W-2...I have a loss of 125.36. Is that right?

Or do I take what they claim the 25 stocks were worth and subtract what I paid? That's a loss of 88.23. Does the remaining $37 get claimed as fees?

These numbers don't add up and they aren't providing much more information than this. What's even more confusing, is the wire transfer came directly from Sweden...so how were taxes withheld from it? The contacts in the US for this program have no clue what is really going on from my experience dealing with them so I'm not keen on asking them accounting questions. And since they placed part of it on my W-2, I'm not expecting any 1099-Bs. Any advice?

[nelsona]

This is a US-only tax question, correct?

I would contact the person who prepared your W-2, or a US tax expert.
Which "part" did they put on your W-2?

[rtaft]

yes US taxes. They put the stock match on the W-2, which was essentially a cash payout and not stock at all The funds were wired from Sweden, yet taxes were withheld from it, not sure how that worked. There is still the capital loss from what I paid in, which I suppose I can only guess what exchange rate they used. The US side of the company referred me to the Swedish side, which has not respond to me. Fun stuff.