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> The tax bill will come due when the employee leaves the company; so this doesn't really help a lot.

I don't see where this is the case. In fact, it's against the spirit of the original proposal. Can you point to where you read this?

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I think I misread the bill, the part that I saw was "The employee may defer the inclusion of income from the stock until the year that includes the earliest of the dates on which... the employee becomes an excluded employee", I'll go update my original comment.

Still, the conditions when the tax bill is due are unclear, e.g. what does "seven years have passed after the rights of the employee in the stock are transferable or are not subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, whichever occurs earlier" mean?

IANAL! Thanks for editing your earlier comment.

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