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  • For example, you may be awarded stock options (either ISOs or NSOs) that are restricted -- your rights to them "vest" over time if you stay with the company.

    Ten Tax Tips For Stock Options 2010

  • There are incentive stock options (or ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (or NSOs).

    Ten Tax Tips For Stock Options 2010

  • For example, you may be awarded stock options either ISOs or NSOs that are restricted--your rights to them "vest" over time if you stay with the company.

    Ten Tax Tips For Stock Options 2010

  • The tax rules are complicated, and you may have a mix of ISOs, NSOs, restricted stock and more.

    Ten Tax Tips For Stock Options 2010

  • The tax rules are complicated, and you may have a mix of ISOs, NSOs, restricted stock and more.

    Ten Tax Tips For Stock Options 2010

  • There are incentive stock options (or ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (or NSOs).

    Ten Tax Tips For Stock Options 2010

  • Interestingly, your ex will be credited with the payment of the FICA and Medicare taxes on his W-2, as the government continues to view the NSOs proceeds called the "compensation element" as a form of wages that your ex earned.

    Splitting Stock Options In A Divorce Marlene M. Browne 2006

  • In this case, after transfer of the NSOs to you, you'll have control over when to exercise the options, consistent with the initial option grant.

    Splitting Stock Options In A Divorce Marlene M. Browne 2006

  • Once you know how many unexercised stock options exist, you have to identify them as either statutory stock options (aka incentive stock options, ISOs), options from Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPPs, aka "423 plans" for the tax code provision giving them qualified status) or nonqualified stock options, also known as non-statutory options (NSOs).

    Splitting Stock Options In A Divorce Marlene M. Browne 2006

  • Though NSOs are not favored under the tax code--you will have to report the "bargain element" as income the year in which the options are exercised--they can be transferred to a nonemployee spouse incident to divorce, without a taxable event.

    Splitting Stock Options In A Divorce Marlene M. Browne 2006

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