by Chelsea Rustek | Mar 19, 2024 | Employee Stock Options, Tax Planning
You could be overpaying your stock options tax without knowing it — even if you have a tax preparer. Here’s how to dodge this costly tax trap. Exercising your employee stock options is a good thing. After all, it usually means you’re becoming wealthier and smarter...
by Landon Loveall | Feb 1, 2024 | Employee Stock Options, Financial Planning, Tech Industry
The IPO was announced. You took action and did the 5 things everyone must do. Now, you are in the lock out period, and it is time to develop your post IPO selling strategy. The lock out period is the time when you are restricted from selling your shares. It usually...
by Jim Brightman | Jan 9, 2024 | Employee Stock Options, Tax Planning
If the value of your company’s stock declined significantly after you exercised Incentive Stock Options (ISO), you may have a tax problem. Here is a strategy for avoiding AMT on ISO stock options when the stock price falls. Did you exercise and hold? A common strategy...
by Jim Brightman | Jan 5, 2024 | Employee Stock Options, Tax Planning
Non qualified stock options (NSO) are one of three types of stock options commonly received by tech employees in San Francisco. Incentive stock options (ISO) and restricted stock units (RSU) are the others. None of the three are taxable when granted, but that’s where...
by Landon Loveall | Aug 8, 2023 | Employee Stock Options, IPO
How to devise a smart selling plan and see real tech IPO examples you can learn from. WIth its 2021 rise and 2022 crash, the stock market has been quite a roller coaster these past couple of years. If your employer went public around 2020, you know firsthand just how...
by Landon Loveall | Jul 21, 2022 | Building Wealth, Employee Stock Options
Anytime we have a client with stock options and an IPO in the future (which is often), we build their financial plan around five key areas: Career Stock Options Taxes Cash Flow Investments You’ll notice that stock options are #2 and investments are #5… Yet so many of...