Want to pay less in taxes from the sale of your incentive stock options? While you can’t completely avoid taxes on a profit when you exercise and sell shares from ISOs, you can potentially earn the right to pay at long-term capital gains tax rates -- which are lower than ordinary income. This …
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What Happens to Your Employee Stock Options When You Leave Your Company?
Even if you don’t have plans to leave anytime soon, it’s not unreasonable to consider what happens to your employee stock options when no longer work for your current employer. Whether due to a planned retirement after a long career, a new opportunity at another company, or an intentional …
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Why Waiting to Exercise Your Incentive Stock Options May Increase The AMT
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 ISOs cost more, as that price is fixed, but because the cost of the alternative minimum tax (AMT) may be higher. Most of us …
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Should You Exercise and Sell All Your Employee Stock Options Right Now?
If you have employee stock options, you’ve probably spent time considering the absolute best time to exercise those options -- and from there, whether you should sell or hold your shares. Answering the question of “when” -- when to exercise, and when to sell -- is wrapped in complexity. With so …
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How and Why to Exercise Your ISOs Early in the Calendar Year
Ready to exercise your incentive stock options (ISOs)? Then you have many strategies to consider for how and when to take the next steps. Potential plans to implement include exercising well before the ISOs are set to expire, exercising as expiration nears, or exercising on a rolling basis (so …
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