Two years ago, Micro Corporation granted Alisa, their General Manager, 20,000 incentive stock options with an exercise price of $15 per share. The stock currently trades at $40 per share, but Alisa expects its price to continue to increase. She wants to exercise her options this year, either now or later in the year when she believes the stock will be trading at $55 per share. Regardless of when she exercises the options, she expects to hold onto the stock for at least a year before selling it at an expected price of $100 per share. Alisa wants to know if it makes any difference when she exercises the options. She also wants to know what the tax implications are for each stock sale alternative.

from: book Fortin, S.D.K. A. (2019).Taxation for Decision Makers, 2020. [Bookshelf Ambassadored]. Retrieved fromhttps://ambassadored.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781119562153/