I have had a terrible year in business. We had a fire and several other events that made me close the business. My wife and I were trying to be good american citizens and pay our own way through life so we sold some stocks to buy groceries. The stock sales amouonted to $2876.00. $2152.00 of that amount was stock given to us as a gift. Cost basis of both sales is 0$. Now when I go to do my taxes we are not qualified for the earned income tax credit because our investment income exceeded $2650.00 and classifies us...