Employee Stock Options (ESO)

Download or read book Employee Stock Options (ESO) written by James M. Bickley and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESO have been praised as innovative compensation plans that help align the interests of the employees with those of the shareholders. They have also been condemned as schemes to enrich insiders and avoid co. taxes. The tax code recognizes two types of ESO, "qualified" and non-qualified. Qualified options include "incentive stock options," which are limited to $100,000/yr. for any one employee, and "employee stock purchase plans," which are limited to $25,000/yr. for any employee. This report explains the "book-tax gap" as it relates to ESO and S. 2075. U.S. bus. are subject to a dual reporting system. The "book-tax" gap is the excess of reported accounting income over taxable income. Illus. A print on demand report.