### Comment:
Nope - not unless you’re a business; if you were you could deduct commish as part of your operating expenses. But you’re an individual, and the IRS doesn’t care what you paid in comish. If they allowed that it would essentially be like giving free money to the brokerage firms since they could charge whatever they wanted for comish, and people would pay it since they’d be allowed to deduct it from their gains.  
  
 Edit: got this one wrong guys sorry - see below zacks link

### REPLY:
Don’t fees get added to your cost basis?

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