NUA on non-company stock

A local employer at some point began offering a ‘diversified fund’ as an investment election in addition to the company’s stock in their ESOP plan. I believe it was funded with liquidated company shares initially, my question is will the balance in an employee’s ‘diversified fund’ receive the same NUA tax treatment as the company stock once it’s distributed to a brokerage account. Second question is, the quarterly stmts report a cost basis for the company stock, how would one go about obtaining a cost basis for the ‘diversified fund?’



The diversified fund shares will not get NUA treatment. The shares must be those of the employer or the parent company of the employer. There is no reason that you’d need the basis of the diversified fund shares for income tax purposes.



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