Stock option benefit deferral
5 Nov 2015 example, the top tax rate on stock options could be increase from The expected 2016 rates will apply to all taxable income, including stock option benefits, Where bonus or other types of deferred compensation payments Tax Deferral on Stock Options and RSUs: Bloink & Byrnes Go Thumb to Thumb The 2017 tax reform legislation created a new provision that allows certain employees to defer recognizing gain on certain Before these new rules, the only way that a stock option benefit could be deferred until the sale of the shares was if the stock option was in respect of private company shares. The Department of Finance issued new rules, allowing for a deferral of the stock option benefit where the value of the shares at the time that the stock option was granted did not exceed $100,000.