{"id":7206,"date":"2017-11-21T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2017-11-17T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:40:36","slug":"linked-dont-tax-options-and-rsus-upon-vesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/linked-dont-tax-options-and-rsus-upon-vesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Don\u2019t Tax Options And RSUs Upon Vesting!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2406,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/avc.com\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/dont-tax-options-and-rsus-upon-vesting&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avc.com\/2017\/11\/dont-tax-options-and-rsus-upon-vesting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via AVC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>What this would mean is every month, when your equity compensation vests a little bit, you will owe taxes on it even though you can\u2019t do anything with that equity compensation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can\u2019t spend it, you can\u2019t save it, you can\u2019t invest it. Because you don\u2019t have it yet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Taxing equity compensation upon vesting makes no sense.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Generally, startups pay less but you\u2019re granted vesting equity that you hope will make you a decent sum of money at some point. Most of these companies never have an exit and therefore those shares are useless so to be taxed on shares that only have a value on paper based on the last round of funding will cause smart people to bow out of the startup life. You can call these people privileged but it will hurt innovation. IBM will get more of the smart people who should have been starting companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via AVC: What this would mean is every month, when your equity compensation vests a little bit, you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-11-21T15:40:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"1dbc6fb5-00fa-4e3f-a388-756d061e7614","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-11-21T15:40:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHbxvtQD6Tj-jiHVtBh52FA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Se","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1921,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/bloomberg-tells-us-the-history-of-twitter-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":7206,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Bloomberg Tells us The History of Twitter [Video]","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've heard the story told again and again by half a dozen people who were there at the inception but this 25 minute special is worth a watch. 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