Convert Betterment 1099-B to TurboTax — Hundreds of Tax-Loss-Harvesting Lots
Upload your Betterment 1099-B PDF and we'll convert it to a TXF file ready for TurboTax. Wash sales and 100+ transactions handled automatically.
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Why Betterment 1099-Bs Don't Import Cleanly Into TurboTax
Every broker formats their 1099-B differently. Here's what trips up TurboTax users with Betterment statements.
Tax Loss Harvesting+ turns a single app notification into a dozen separate lot sales, and a mature account routinely runs 500 to 2,000 transaction lines.
Harvesting near a deposit or a reinvested dividend produces sub-dollar wash sale adjustments on individual lots, which trigger 'disallowed wash sale loss cannot be zero' errors on import.
What Betterment shows as one portfolio action — a withdrawal, a rebalance, an allocation change — is executed as sales across several ETFs, each broken into its own tax lots.
How it works
From a PDF nobody can import
to a file that just works
Your broker prints transactions for humans to read. Tax software wants columns. We read every line — including VARIOUS dates, wash sales and missing cost basis — and hand back the columns.
AI reads
every line
~30 seconds
AI reads every line — about 30 seconds from upload to download.
Your tax documents
A 1099-B is not a file you hand over lightly
It carries your account numbers, every position you held, and what you made or lost on each one. Here is exactly what we do with it — and what we never do.
Your PDF is deleted, not stored
We pull the transactions out and delete the original file as soon as the conversion finishes. It is never archived, never backed up, and never sits on a server waiting for someone to find it.
We never ask for your brokerage login
Auto-import tools want your username and password. We only need the PDF your broker already sent you. Your credentials stay with you, and every upload and download travels over an encrypted connection.
Kept in the United States, then deleted
Our servers and database are located in the United States. Your extracted transactions stay available for 90 days so you can re-download them in any format, then are deleted automatically. You can delete a conversion yourself at any time.
Never used to train AI, never read by a person
Extraction is fully automated under commercial API terms that exclude your data from AI model training. No employee, contractor, or operator opens your 1099-B or reads your trades. We do not sell or share your financial data.
Want the full breakdown, step by step? Read our Security & Data Handling page.
How to Import Your TXF Into TurboTax
After downloading the file from our converter, follow these steps in TurboTax.
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Open TurboTax Desktop (Premier, Home & Business, or higher — TXF import is not available in TurboTax Online).
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Go to File → Import → From Accounting Software.
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Select 'Other Financial Software (TXF file)' and choose the file you downloaded.
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TurboTax will auto-fill Form 8949 and Schedule D with all your transactions, including wash sale adjustments.
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Review the imported summary and continue with the rest of your return.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this work for Betterment?
Yes. Our AI extractor reads every text-based 1099-B PDF from Betterment, including consolidated statements with multiple sections, and outputs a TXF file formatted for TurboTax.
How is this different from TurboTax's built-in Betterment import?
Direct broker imports often fail with 100+ transactions, miss wash sale adjustments, or refuse to load consolidated statements. We bypass that by reading the PDF directly and producing a clean TXF file.
Is my data secure?
Your PDF is deleted as soon as the conversion finishes — it is never archived. The extracted transactions stay in your account for 90 days so you can re-download them, then are deleted automatically. We never ask for your brokerage login, nothing is used to train AI models, and no one reads your trades.
What does it cost?
Uploading and previewing your results (summary totals plus the first 10 transactions) is free. To download the TXF file for TurboTax — or any other format — is a one-time $8.99 per conversion. No subscription.
What about wash sales and adjusted cost basis?
We extract wash sale loss disallowed amounts and adjusted cost basis exactly as reported on your Betterment 1099-B. The output file preserves these adjustments so TurboTax handles Form 8949 correctly.
TurboTax rejects my Betterment import over sub-dollar wash sale amounts. Will this get around it?
Yes. Every wash sale loss disallowed amount is carried into the TXF exactly as Betterment reports it, including amounts under a dollar, so TurboTax accepts them as valid Form 8949 adjustments instead of failing validation.
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