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Re:Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting by kstrauser on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:39PM (#15688819)
I don't think it's an unintended consequence. I think it was meant to punish Big Tech for their resistance to the Republican party in the 2016 election.
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Re:Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting by ihsw2 on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:06PM (#15689140)
That is another hunch that I was considering posting but personally I'm skeptical of this. While immigration reform may have fell on its face due to opposition from tech firms, I find it hard to believe the Trump administration would conceive such an effective means of targeting them.

It stands to reason that they recognized NSOs/ISOs being used heavily (perhaps more than anyone else) by tech firms but this just seems like a recognition that wealth taxation woefully needs reform. The estate tax is being retired so this seems to balance it out.

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Re:Don’t Tax Options and RSUs Upon Vesting by akhilcacharya on Monday November 13, 2017 @04:12PM (#15690296)
> The estate tax is being retired so this seems to balance it out.

So taxes on people that work for a living are raised to pay for eliminating the estate tax multi-millionaires?

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