Financial Web site myStockOptions.com has opened an online
The site explores issues such as the reporting of stock sales on Schedule D, new alternative minimum tax exemption amounts and the effect of stock compensation on the 2008 tax rebate. The Tax Center includes information on the filing and reporting of tax returns that involve nonqualified and incentive stock options, restricted stock, performance shares, stock appreciation rights and employee stock purchase plans.
Annotated illustrations of Form W-2 and Schedule D for restricted stock units and performance shares are also available on the site, as well as information about the rules for estimated taxes with stock compensation, the process for netting capital gains and losses, and the impact of the deferred compensation provisions in Tax Code Section 409A on stock grants.
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