“Companies that compensate their leadership with stock options can write off, for tax purposes, huge expenses that far exceed their actual cost,” Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, wrote in a post breaking down Zoom’s tax strategy.
March 23, 2021
Business Insider: Zoom Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on $664 Million in Pandemic Profits, Mostly by Paying Executives Stock Options
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