"If you have equity compensation, sometimes there are massive windfalls".
Restricted stock units are a form of equity compensation similar to restricted stock.
The equity compensation costs just make the company even more expensive.
Tax Benefits Tax treatment of hedge fund and private equity compensation has been another point of political contention.
Lower-ranked employees who received equity compensation, which is largely undisclosed, may have also received such a windfall.
It plans to ask shareholders for permission to add restricted stock and stock units to its equity compensation plan.
"They have responded to the commission's call for an increased shareholder voice in the equity compensation practices of listed companies".
Founders pay tax at capital gains rates, while employees, subject to the same market risk on their equity compensation, pay tax at ordinary income rates.
Mr. Mason also defended the use of a controversial accounting formula that leaves out the cost of acquiring subscribers, equity compensation, interest costs and taxes.
More tellingly, it also shows how the government most likely enriched financial executives by pushing banks to award more equity compensation through TARP than they otherwise would have.
Making executives look out for shareholder value is, after all, why companies skewed their compensation systems toward stock options and other equity compensation.
