Employee stock options and transfer pricing

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Employee stock options and transfer pricing

April 30 2002

Tax authorities in a number of countries are increasingly focusing on transfer pricing issues related to stock options. Ernst & Young transfer pricing and stock-based compensation professionals have collaborated to review the pitfalls and opportunities with particular reference to the UK, the US and Germany. By Gareth Green and Jeremy Glover in London and Stanley Veliotis in New York

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