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8 Advantages of Incentive Stock Options You May Want to Know

by Daniel Zajac, CFP®, EA | Last updated Jul 24, 2025 | Incentive Stock Options

Incentive stock options are a powerful compensation tool that can help you grow your wealth. Companies award them to employees as a retention vehicle, to reward specific successes or as...

Tax Rates on Qualifying Dispositions of Incentive Stock Options May Offer a Tax Buffer – But Watch Out for Investment Risk

by Daniel Zajac, CFP®, EA | Last updated May 27, 2025 | Incentive Stock Options

If you have stock options, then you can access an asset that provides you with a choice. Very literally, a stock option is an option; it’s a form of compensation...

How to Use a Cashless Exercise of Incentive Stock Options to Manage Cash Flow

by Daniel Zajac, CFP®, EA | Last updated Jul 7, 2025 | Alternative Minimum Tax, Incentive Stock Options

If you have employee stock options, you need to determine what kind you have so you know if a cash or cashless exercise makes sense: incentive stock options (ISO) or...

What You Should Know About the Alternative Minimum Tax

by Daniel Zajac, CFP®, EA | Last updated May 27, 2025 | Alternative Minimum Tax

Created in 1969 as a way to ensure high-income earners paid their fair share in taxes, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) acts as a parallel tax system to the regular...

Why Waiting to Exercise Your Incentive Stock Options May Increase The Alternative Minimum Tax

by Daniel Zajac, CFP®, EA | Last updated Jul 7, 2025 | Alternative Minimum Tax, Incentive Stock Options

Incentive stock options are unique in that the longer you wait to exercise, the costlier it may be to exercise and hold your shares. That’s not because exercising the incentive...

How to Exercise Incentive Stock Options to the AMT Crossover Point

by Daniel Zajac, CFP®, EA | Last updated Jul 7, 2025 | Alternative Minimum Tax, Incentive Stock Options, Strategies for Maximizing Equity Compensation

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...

4 Ways to Lower the Alternative Minimum Tax when you Exercise Incentive Stock Options

by Daniel Zajac, CFP®, EA | Last updated Jul 30, 2025 | Incentive Stock Options

When you exercise and hold incentive stock options, it’s very possible that you will be subject to the alternative minimum tax (AMT). This part of the tax code gets complex,...

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Incentive Stock Options and The Alternative Minimum Tax

by Daniel Zajac, CFP®, EA | Last updated May 19, 2025 | Incentive Stock Options

If you have incentive stock options, you’ve likely heard the term alternative minimum tax, or AMT. But what is the AMT, and how is it calculated? It’s a type of...