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  • Service: Tax
  • Type: Audio, White paper
  • Date: 4/21/2010
  • Length: Minutes

Listen to KPMG's Webcast Replay: Time to Rethink Employee Stock Option Plans 

Companies that offer stock option plans to their employees may have to quickly re-evaluate these arrangements following significant changes to the tax treatment of stock options announced in the 2010 federal budget. These measures—some of which are already in effect—change the tax treatment of stock option cash-outs and eliminate the tax deferral opportunity for employees exercising qualifying stock options in public companies and certain private ones.

For employees with underwater stock options, the budget measures may provide some welcome tax relief—in some cases, as far back as 2001.

 

On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, KPMG's Tax professionals presented a webcast that analyzed these measures and discussed what they mean to your company's employees now and your compensation programs in the future.

 

For further information about this topic, please read "Time to Rework Corporate Stock Option Plans" from TaxNewsFlash-Canada 2010-15 (March 23, 2010).