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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

In a funny way it also benefitted the IRS in terms of tax collections as employees were taxed on the spread between the option and the value of the stock on exit and since these shares were typically exercised at the time of an exit were subject to short term capital gains.

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Exit Activity Up 25% in 2010, as Signs Point to 2011 as "The Year of the IPO"

ReadWriteStart

While the number of exits and the capital gained through them were up, these figures still don't match 2007 levels. Exit activity is staging a comeback but capital netted lagged as large M&As and IPOs were still uncommon in 2010," said Jessica Canning, director of global research for Dow Jones VentureSource.

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Getting Robbed at the Bank, Part II

Growthink Blog

in 2007 to a very discouraging 10% by October 2009. And when asset values go up, when purchase and sales transactions occur that result in huge capital gains, when people are working and earning good wages, Tax Receipts increase too. Start with jobs - unemployment went from a very impressive low 4.4%

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French Tax Law for Start-ups: Ringing the Alarm Bell

Cracking the Code

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%. So why twelve years?

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

A more recent incarnation of this is the 2007 development of ARPA-E, designed to fund basic science related to advanced energy technologies. This could be viewed as an extension of the QSBS rules that today permit many entrepreneurs and some early investors to avoid paying federal capital gains taxes when they sell appreciated equity.

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My Big Plans For 2011 (Plus What You Need To Focus On Next Year)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

My first one, Blog Mastermind came out in 2007. I was going to run my first live event, Million Dollar Blogging Secrets , with my friend and million dollar blogger Alborz Fallah this year, but we decided to postpone what we had planned for New York for many reasons, one of which being we simply started organizing it too late.

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Wealth Gap

Venture Chronicles

I don’t have a W-2, instead I earn income that is taxed as capital gains, which means that I take home more of my income than if I were working, but because I am not working I don’t create an economic multiplier that lifts other people with me… as in creates jobs.