Published: March 10, 2020
Last Updated: April 16, 2020
If you’re creating a stock option in your Canadian corporation for a shareholder, be sure to grant the same rights to all of the other shareholders of the same class. Otherwise, the stock option will be considered to be a taxable benefit for Canadian income tax purposes to the shareholder.
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