First Clearing Tax Form Mailing Dates
Our Consolidated Statements and Forms 1099 will be mailed to clients over a period of time ranging from January 28 through about February 20. If you have multiple brokerage accounts, you may receive 1099 forms as early as late January, but not receive 1099s for all your accounts until mid-late February. Please ensure that you have received required tax forms for all accounts that may have taxable activity before beginning to complete your tax forms for the IRS. We are mailing later than January 31, similar to last year, in order to capture as much data as possible from mutual funds, unit investment trusts and other complex investments prior to creating your original tax form, and to limit the need for amended forms. It is still possible that you may receive one or more amended Forms 1099 in 2008 for tax year 2007. Amended 1099 forms will be sent to clients as revised information is received from the issuers.

To assist you in planning for your 2007 taxes, we have produced the following schedule of the various tax information forms we (or others) will mail to you over the next few months. Most amended forms are mailed between February 26 and April 1. You will receive only those forms that are appropriate for the activity in each of your accounts. Forms shaded below are likely to arrive before April 15.

For mailing dates of tax forms not listed above, please contact your Financial Advisor.

Since many distributions on Form 1099-DIV are reclassified after year-end, we strongly urge you to wait as long as possible before preparing your returns (bear in mind that each contains information available to us at that time, and may be corrected at a later date, generating one or more amended forms). For a number of reasons, the Income & Distributions totals on the December account statement may not represent the amounts to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Your Financial Advisor can explain how this applies in your situation.