Two Article on Taxes and Employee Stock Options

Here is an article from Business Insider and another from the New York Times criticizing the treatment of deducting the intrinsic values as an expense when  employee stock options are exercised. I made a comment on the Business Insider article.

http://www.businessinsider.com/when-companies-write-off-stock-options-is-it-an-unfair-tax-break-2011-12

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/business/tax-breaks-from-options-a-windfall-for-businesses.html?_r=1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45824495/ns/business-us_business/t/ceo-stock-options-give-companies-tax-windfall/#.Tv3hQUoxo01

John Olagues

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