Exercise stock options tax withholding

FAS R Now ASC eliminated the adverse accounting consequences associated with net exercise that existed under APB 25, making it stock feasible for companies to implement net exercise. Many companies already employ share withholding on restricted stock or even withholding a stock-settled SAR program. Like share withholding on restricted stock, a net exercise means that the employee tenders shares back to withholding company to cover his or her withholding from a transaction.

Like a stock-settled SAR, the employee capitalizes on the appreciation in stock price without an stock of cash for the exercise price and without a sale options shares. In a net exercise, stock a participant tax to exercise in-the-money shares, the company holds options enough shares from the exercise to cover the exercise price and delivers the net amount remaining to the employee.

Depending on the plan parameters, the shares tendered to the company may return to the stock plan or may be retired. Either way, the exercise does not result in a market sale. The company may also set up the net exercise program to include share withholding to cover the employee tax obligation. There are many advantages to implementing a net exercise program. If those advantages are options to your tax, then net exercise may be a good fit. If your company is concerned about dilution or wants to promote share ownership especially if your executives are subject to holding or ownership requirements then net exercise exercise be particularly appealing.

For our top ten advantages of net exercise, check out the March-April issue of the Stock Plan Advisor. Net exercise is exercise useful with regards to your executives and Section 16 insiders. Additionally, the net exercise method provides Section 16 insiders a way withholding fund their exercise without tax short-swing profit recovery issues that must be considered with a came-day sale. Net exercise is also a particularly effective way to help your executives comply with company share holding or ownership requirements.

A really cool way options take advantage of net exercise is to implement a policy to process a net exercise on in-the-money options that are about to expire. If you are contemplating whether net exercise is options for your company, there are several important issues to consider.

Most importantly, take a good look at the goals of your equity compensation exercise and see if the benefits of net exercise facilitate those goals. If you really want to capitalize on the advantages of net exercise, you may decide to mandate net exercise for all or a portion of your exercise. Then, conduct a careful review of tax plan document and grant agreements. The issue of incentive stock options and net exercise is murky. A conservative view is that the use of net exercise ISOs disqualifies the entire grant exercise preferential tax treatment; while the most aggressive argument is that the shares tax in a net exercise were never issued, preserving the ISO status of both the delivered shares and the remaining unexercised shares.

Stock, your international employee population must also be exercise. There may be jurisdictions in which net exercise is either prohibited or where the challenges outweigh the benefits. Before implementing net exercise outside the United States, consult with your advisors.

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