Bruce Brumberg has devoted most of his professional career to making complex tax and legal concepts easily understandable to people who do not enjoy reading the Internal Revenue Code or the US securities laws. In myStockOptions.com, he created and is the editor-in-chief of the
How Death Would Impact Your Stock Options And RSUs
It may seem creepy that death is a type of job termination under your stock plan—but that's how plans address it. Find out what would happen to valuable equity awards.
Getting Married? A Prenup Can Protect Stock Options And RSUs In Divorce
While not the most romantic activity, drafting a prenup is smart. It means you, not a court, define rules for asset division if you divorce. That can include equity comp.
Tax Tips And Warnings For IPO Company Employees And Their Advisors
For this season of mega-IPOs, this article features tax tips (and a warning) for employees at pre-IPO and IPO companies with equity compensation and holdings of stock.
SpaceX IPO Filing Offers View Of Its Employee Stock Compensation
Stock compensation is rocket fuel for employees of SpaceX. Its IPO will make many of them millionaires. Here's what I learned about their stock comp in the IPO filing.
Stock Option Tax Veteran Shares His Insights
Michael C. Gray has been working with stock option taxation since the start of the Silicon Valley tech boom. I spoke with him to get his insights into the tax complexity.