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Stock options on Nasdaq

  • 09-06-2011 1:51pm
    #1
    egorski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭


    Hi All,

    My employer told me last week that I was to be rewarded with some stock
    options. Our company HQ is in Ireland but it will be floated on the Nasdaq in the US sometime next year. I don't normally pay any attention to this kind
    of thing - I'm a scientist - so I'm trying to work out what are the tax implications and the best way to avail of the offer. I understand that it is a
    restricted scheme so the stock options will be offered at a preferential price before the listing.

    From trawling tinternet, it seems that you have to declare the stock options that you bought and pay a tax on the difference between your preferential price and the expected market value? Can somebody please tell meif this is correct and at what tax rate?

    You then have to pay a capital gains tax when you sell them? It seems that this is charged at your current income tax level?

    Finally - what happens if I sell the shares in the US to a US account and simply repatriate the funds to Ireland.......

    Thanks,

    Egorski


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