If your employer has granted you incentive stock options (ISOs), you’ve likely spent time researching the tax treatment. If so, you’ve probably read about the alternative minimum tax (AMT), and qualifying and disqualifying dispositions. Perhaps the complication has left you wondering: What does this mean to me as a taxpayer?
Category: Strategies for Maximizing Equity Compensation
What to Do When Your Equity Compensation Is Granted and Vested
If you are on the receiving end of an equity compensation award, you may be overwhelmed by the amount of new information, jargon, and rules coming your way. You might also feel uncertain about how new.
How Are Your Equity Compensation Stock Benefits Impacted by the Company’s Stock Performance?
Equity compensation and employee stock benefits can be a great tool for employers to attract and retain key talent. These benefits can be equally attractive for employees, because they fast-track your ability to grow wealth if the company’s stock price rises when you can hold and sell shares. But that’s a big “if.” Stock prices…
When to Exercise and Sell Your Employee Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units
If you have equity compensation as part of your benefits package, you’ve likely spent time considering when it might be best to take action and maximize the value of these potential assets. Deciding the.
How to Evaluate an Employee Stock Purchase Plan from a Recent IPO Company
Access to an employee stock purchase plan that offers a lookback provision and a discount is often a great benefit for employees. If you can afford to contribute, these two features may allow you to.
How to Exercise Incentive Stock Options to the AMT Crossover Point
Finding the best time and best strategy to exercise incentive stock options is difficult. Competing considerations on income tax, investment planning, and financial planning make it difficult to address the best time to exercise incentive stock options (ISOs) with a...
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