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Although I'm from the Netherlands, I read these articles with great interest. Some wisdoms are transferable (e.g., equity being worth only as much as the company is valuated at right now, rather than what it might be in the future), but many also aren't, such as specific ways in which options, equity etc. are taxated. Are there any "guides for humans" out there that are specifically aimed at us Europeans? (Or, even more specific, us Dutchies?)

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Or even us polite, frozen neighbours! It's in the news more lately because the newly elected government says it wants to change some of the tax rules around stock options.

Perhaps splitting the content into universal and US-only advice would allow other (more knowledgeable) individuals to build on the universal advice and give more location-dependent advice separately?

It's a bit messy to do this, but yes. See comment above.

We'd love to make it more general, yes. But it's a difficult task since taxation and law interact a lot with equity comp.

In the short term, it's just for the US, but this could change.

Probably the best approach would be for someone knowledgeable in European law to write an addendum in the same style for Europeans, listing info and differences specific to EU or specific countries. Then in the future, perhaps we could have linked subsections devoted to different regions or countries (and perhaps even split out the US). If anyone here would like to help with this, please file an issue to coordinate it!

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