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Nonqualified stock option (NQSO)

An employee stock option not meeting the IRS criteria for incentive stock options and therefore triggering a tax upon exercise. This type of option requires withholding of state and federal income tax, Medicare, and FICA/FUTA tax on the excess of the fair market value over the exercise price on the exercise date.



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