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What is taxed, and when, from grant to vest to exercise to sale.
How long you hold ESPP shares changes how the discount is taxed, splitting your gain between salary rates and the lower capital-gains rate. This is the whole story: the two clocks, the two formulas, the basis trap that taxes you twice, and the state and AMT wrinkles most people miss.
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