A downtick is coming for online advertising

Re:A downtick is coming for online advertising by bagacrap on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:17AM (#31109705)

there shouldn't be a low withholding on RSUs if your settings are correct, e.g. "I expect to make more than 400k this year". it shouldn't matter if stocks drop after vest since the withholding is taken out of the RSU vest amount.

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Re:A downtick is coming for online advertising by mrep on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:48AM (#31110123)

Really? Mine defaults to 22% on morgan stanley and I have to manually withhold extra from my salary. It also does not withhold any for state taxes which I also have to do with my salary. I don't think I can withhold either from the RSU sale.

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Re:A downtick is coming for online advertising by _huayra_ on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:15PM (#31111409)

Yeah I think the standard is to sell some percentage of the RSU grant each time there is a distribution (to cover the taxes of getting it as income).

Unfortunately this is usually insufficient in most companies and one will likely still owe a big chunk of change to the IRS each year as a result.

One can ask for extra withholding, but it's a bit tricky to figure out until one has worked for a given company / comp level for a given year.

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Re:A downtick is coming for online advertising by philjohn on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:36PM (#31112614)

Yes - it's different in the UK, I have the full 47% sold before disbursment of stock (well, 48.25% from next vest).

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