Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Types of Employee Stock Options and Effect on Employee's W-2

There are three kinds of stock options: IncentiveStock Options, Employee Stock Purchase Plan Options, and Nonstatutory (alsocalled Nonqualifed) Stock Options.

 

1. ISO -Ordinary Income

This is reportable for federal income tax, that is,it is included on Form W-2 Box 1 but no tax is withheld from the employee. Itis not reported on the W-2 as a separate amount.

 

NetSuite Earnings Code - ISO - Ordinary Income

 

2. EmployeeStock Purchase Plan Options

 

These are set up as a voluntary deduction. They arenot reported on the W-2.

 

NetSuite deduction - Misc. After-tax Deduction

 

3.Nonqualified Stock Option

 

Federal income tax is withheld. This is reported onW-2 Box 12 Code V. The terms "nonqualified" and "nonstatutory" areinterchangeable.

 

NetSuite earnings code - Nonqualified stock option

 

 

For more current information, please see:

IRS Publication 15b, page 11.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15b.pdf
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/irb02-19.pdf

 

 

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