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Unlocking the Power of Equity-Based Incentive Compensation: An Overview of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs)

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This article is the third in our series on equity-based compensation intended to assist employers with answering a common question: What type of equity compensation award is best for our company and our employees?...more

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I’ve Been Trying to Get Down to the Heart of the Matter – the Board Action

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If you ever want to see a benefits lawyer get nervous, start talking about corporate intent. Yes, the company intended to grant options at an earlier and lower exercise price, and yes it may have made promises to the...more

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Tax Aspects of Cryptocurrency-Based Compensation to Employees

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Share-based compensation is the most popular reward method among employees and service providers in many industries today, especially the high-tech industry. From the grantee’s point of view, the receipt of options enables a...more

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Employee Stock Plans: International Reporting Requirements

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This White Paper highlights some of the principal annual reporting requirements for employee stock plans that multinational companies most commonly encounter when offering these programs to their employees in selected...more

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Surf’s Up, Dude! High Tech Tax Solutions for High Tech Workers! - Tax Planning Solutions for the Exercise of Incentive Stock...

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I remember the first time that I signed onto the internet. It was 1998 and I had just started work for Deloitte and Touche in Boston. My boss was traveling on my first day with the company,so I had to entertain myself...more

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Annual Reporting Requirements for Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plans (UPDATED)

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Requirement to Report - For (1) any exercise of an incentive stock option (ISO) during 2019 or (2) transfer during 2019 of a share previously purchased pursuant to a tax-qualified employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), the...more

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Not So Fast…the (Unexpected) Consequences of Allowing Your Employees to Early Exercise Options

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From time to time, and primarily when the economy is booming, allowing stock options to be “early exercised” - that is, allowing options to be exercised before they are vested - becomes in vogue. We are in one of those times....more

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Enterprise Management Incentive option plans following expiry of EU State Aid approval – playing the waiting game

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Enterprise Management Incentive ("EMI") option plans are one of the very few UK tax advantaged option plan arrangements. Companies qualify to grant EMI options if they meet qualifying criteria, including...more

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Term Limits? Stock Options are Not as Flexible as You May Think…

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Even though stock options are a commonly used compensation tool, certain issues, such as whether you must/should limit their terms and, if you do, whether you can make changes to their terms after they have been granted,...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UK Employee Share Plans Tax Filing Deadline

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In order to avoid penalties, companies should be sure to complete mandatory online registrations well in advance of the 6 July deadline. Companies which operate employee share plans in the UK are required to make a...more

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The Boricua Option – The Taxation of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs) as a Puerto Rican Resident - Another Good Reason to Move to La...

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Overview - Many professional living and working in Silicon Valley over the last twenty years have become very wealthy as a result of their participation in company stock options plans – qualified and non-qualified....more

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Reminder to Perform Annual ISO/ESPP Reporting in January 2014

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As discussed in our December 16, 2010 blog article, the IRS issued final regulations in 2009 under Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) that require Employers to annually furnish each employee who exercised...more

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Annual ISO and ESPP Information and Reporting Requirements

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Annual Information Statements and IRS Returns - Requirement to Report - For any exercise of an incentive stock option (ISO) or transfer of a share previously purchased pursuant to a tax-qualified employee stock...more

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