In microsoft.public.money, Pat wrote:

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It seems to me that a : Tax Deferred Variable Annuity has a tax
basis for the ACCOUNT and not for the particular holdings within
that account. But that is as an observer, and not as a participant
or tax pro.

I suspect some note of your contributions in the account details, or
a report that you customize to record contributions into the account
would be a good way to track what you need.

I read that a portion of what you take out of the annuity is return
of principal. I don't know how that is calculated. Perhaps somebody
will have a good idea as to how to track things in Money, but I
don't remember anybody describing a technique.

So I would just do Buy and Sell transactions in the account until
you go to take distributions.

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Typically people get sold annuities. Did your salesman tell you how
to do the taxes? If you can describe that, perhaps somebody can
suggest a good way to uses Money to help track the process.

I have the above type of an account in Money 2003. The
original purchases were to a single investment fund. The
cost basis was recorded correctly. Now, I have transfer
part of the money to other investments in the same
account. I have tried several transactions but cannot
seem to maintain the original cost basis.

Is there a transaction process to properly handled this?

or

Is there a way to access the cost basis and manullay
correct?

Thanks for any assistance.