Discover how incentive stock options (ISOs) offer tax benefits and buying discounts in employee stock purchase plans. Learn the ways in which they can be used.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce makes the law and tax code understandable to everyone. When you receive a grant of stock options, it is imperative that you ...

How your employee stock options are taxed depends on the option type. Some defer taxes until you sell; others are taxable sooner. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our ...

Historically, options contracts have been a niche market occupied by professional investors. All that changed in recent years ...

Michael C. Gray has been working with stock option taxation since the start of the Silicon Valley tech boom. I spoke with him ...

With equity markets near all-time highs and the IPO market starting to thaw, many executives are wrestling with a tough question: When to exercise their stock options?