Planning area

Equity compensation

Stock options, restricted stock and employee purchase plans can be a family’s largest source of wealth and its most complicated tax situation. Exercise and sale decisions affect regular tax, alternative minimum tax and state tax, often across several years.

What we look at

  • ISO exercise timing and alternative minimum tax exposure
  • NSO exercises and withholding shortfalls
  • RSU vesting and the gap between withholding and actual tax
  • ESPP purchases and qualifying versus disqualifying sales
  • 83(b) elections for early-exercised or restricted shares
  • Reducing a concentrated position over several years

Part of the whole family plan

Equity decisions are modeled inside the family’s multi-year projection, alongside charitable giving, retirement savings and state residency. That shows the effect of each exercise or sale on the household, not only on the grant.

Prefer to model cases yourself?

If your advisors want to run equity compensation scenarios on their own, EquityNav also makes equity compensation planning software for advisors.

See the EquityNav software

Questions

Common questions.

Can the plan cover grants from more than one employer?

Yes. Plans regularly cover grants across several companies and both spouses.

How does this relate to the EquityNav software?

The EquityNav software lets advisors model equity compensation cases themselves. Expert Services prepares the full family plan for your firm, with equity compensation as one part, and a licensed CPA signs it.

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