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Short-term capital gains from mutual funds and Etrade
Many thanks to Ira for focusing me on the Transaction ledger
to resolve significant discrepancies between Etrade and
Bivio with respect to ordinary dividends. It appears that
Etrade considers short-term gains from mutual funds as
dividends.
So if I change these to dividends, I am close in matching
the two on total ordinary dividends.

However, when I go in and change the reinvestment data for
these gains to reflect the source as a dividend, the
original discrepancy appears. So I am leaving the
reinvestment as coming from a short-term gain.

Any suggestions as to what is happening here? I have given
up on getting timely feedback from Bivio.

Judith Greenberg
jgreenb@bellsouth.net