What Scotia iTRADE provides
Scotia iTRADE provides tax documents and account statements through ScotiaOnline, with transaction history available per account for download. For non-registered accounts you’ll generally receive a T5008 covering your dispositions, along with T3 and T5 slips for distributions and dividends. Trades inside a TFSA or RRSP aren’t reported and aren’t taxable.
Why the cost base may be incomplete
Like every broker, Scotia iTRADE can only compute cost base from activity it sees in your Scotia iTRADE accounts. If you transferred shares in, hold the same security at another broker, reinvested distributions, or received equity-comp shares, its cost figure can be partial or blank — while the proceeds are usually reliable.
A Scotia iTRADE detail worth knowing
Scotia iTRADE book cost can diverge from your true ACB if you transferred shares from another Scotiabank product (e.g. a Tangerine account) or from an external institution — the platform may use the transfer-date market value instead of your original purchase cost.
Getting your data into shape
Export your Scotia iTRADE activity (transactions and slips), then build a pooled cost base across all your accounts and brokers — applying reinvested distributions, return of capital, FX on US trades, and any corporate actions. That reconciled ACB, not the raw slip, is what belongs on your Schedule 3.