Re:NYC Open Letter to Jeff Bezos
by credit_guy on Friday March 01, 2019 @05:00PM
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Not the OP, but here's a Bloomberg article about this [1]. It has a bit of an incendiary tone. Later Bloomberg published an editorial [2] explaining that actually there's nothing scandalous about the zero federal tax rate; it is due to a difference between tax accounting and GAAP accounting. For tax purposes deferred equity compensation is considered to be out-the-door the moment it is granted, for GAAP purposes it's out-the-door the moment it vests.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-22/tax-law-d...
[2]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-26/amazon...