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To: Tom Aellis who wrote (9710)	11/26/1997 7:46:00 PM
From: hpeace	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

tom, almost all stk options , you have to pay tax when you exercise even if you do not sell it. They also have an option price and you pay the tax when you give them the option price amt. So, when you exercise you end up with the option price and 25% less for the stk. It's the other way around..most have to sell the stk to pay the tax. somebody has 10,000 shares and it's worth 100 a share. And, there option price is 25 a share. that's 750,000 profit. then you have to give them the tax right then.. that's anotherb 188k. So they end up with 562k.