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TAX RETURNS

Avoid Tax Return Mistakes With Stock Options & ESPPs: What You Need To Know In 2010

By Bruce Brumberg and Lynnette Khalfani

How To Report Sales Of Company Stock By The myStockOptions.com Tax Team

Restricted Stock & RSUs: What You Must Know To Avoid Tax Return Mistakes In 2010

By Bruce Brumberg

FINANCIAL PLANNING

How To Avoid The Most Common Stock Option Mistakes (Part 1)

By Beth Walker

Better Late Than Never: Stock Option Strategy For The Market Upturn

By Michael Beriss

Reframing Your Stock Option Exercise Strategy In Volatile Markets

By Tom Davison

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RESTRICTED STOCK & RSUs

Why You'll Learn To Like Restricted Stock Grants

By Richard Friedman

Decisions At Vesting With Restricted Stock (Part 2): Hold Or Fold?

By Tom Davison

EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLANS

Fundamentals Of Employee Stock Purchase Plans (Part 1): Basic Structure And Terms

By Alisa Baker

Employee Stock Purchase Plans & Your Financial Planning (Part 1)

By Bruce Brumberg

ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX

Stock Option Fundamentals (Part 5): Incentive Stock Option Taxation & Alternative Minimum Tax

By Marilyn Renninger

The ISO Tax Trap And The AMT Credit Myth: What To Do Before Exercise And At Year-End

By Alan Ungar

LIFE EVENTS

Retirement Planning With Your Stock Options And Other Stock Compensation (Part 1: Pre-Retirement Planning)

By Carol Cantrell

I'm Getting Divorced: What Happens To My Stock Options? (Part 1)

By Linda Olup

HIGH NET WORTH/
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How To Use Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans To Sell Company Stock (Part 1)

By Darryl Rains and Sunil Kulkarni

Hedging Your Employee Stock Options (Part 1)

By Robert Gordon

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

My Company's Being Acquired: What Happens To My Stock Options? (Part 2)

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Q: Schedule D diagram! How do I report a sale of shares from restricted stock units (RSUs) on my federal income-tax return?
A: You need to complete a Schedule D, Capital Gains and Losses, for the year of the sale of your stock and file it with your Form 1040 federal income-tax return. You do this even if you are only...

Q: Schedule D diagram! If I did cashless exercises/sales of stock options from several grants simultaneously, do I need to report each sale separately on Schedule D? Can I aggregate them in one line because I exercised and sold the stock on the same day?
A: Though each grant adds a different amount of money to your taxable ordinary income, the tax basis of all the shares is...

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Q: At exercise, I sold just enough shares to cover my exercise cost and taxes for 2,000 stock options. The exercise price was $10 per share and the market price was $35. My W-2 shows $50,000 of income from the exercise. On my tax return, what do I report as my tax basis? Is it the full $50,000, or is it only the value of the shares I sold in the sell-to-cover exercise?

A: After you do a sell-to-cover exercise, you report only the number of shares you sold and their tax basis. Therefore, you will not use the $50,000 of income that appears on your Form W-2 but, rather, just the amount corresponding to the number of shares sold for the cost and taxes. Your tax basis will thus essentially equal...
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