When Stock Options Cost You More Than They Are Worth

from the ouch dept

A nice little article about how stock options can kill you in taxes. Explains how some stock options holders got hurt badly by some tax laws that force them to pay taxes on the profit at the point they excercised the options rather than when they sold them. There’s a fun example of someone having to pay $90,000 in taxes on options worth $60,000.


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