[GNC] Misleading loss on money market

[Wm Tarr]

I'm in the UK but there is plenty about IRAs and RMDs in the list archives.

Wm

On 2026-06-07 15:46, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> In looking at the transactions, it is due to the way I entered my
> Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) for my Regular IRA.
> There are the two normal splits of:
>   selling some shares and
>   putting the proceeds into an asset account (bank).
>
> I wanted by RMD to show up as taxable income, so I added two
> more splits of:
>   Income account (IRA distribution)
>   Expense account (dummy to balance that income).
>
> It is that dummy Expense split that shows up as both
>   the unrealized loss and
>   the brokerage fees
>
> Is there a better way to record the RMD as taxable income?
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2026 at 5:34 PM Wm Tarr <wm at ilipsis.net> wrote:
>
>     Try the various options for "How to report brokerage fees" to see
>     if one
>     makes more sense than the others.  If it is showing brokerage fees
>     you
>     must have entered them, surely?
>
>     Wm
>
>     On 2026-06-07 03:58, Fred Tydeman wrote:
>     > I am looking at the Advanced Portfolio report for an account.
>     > One of the holdings is a money market that has a constant price
>     of $1.00
>     > The Advanced Portfolio report shows an Unrealized loss for that
>     money
>     > market.
>     > I am expecting a gain/loss of zero (since the price is constant).
>     >
>     > Also, that report shows a large amount of Brokerage Fees,
>     > yet there are no fees for any of the transactions.
>     >
>     > Are these bugs?
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