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Tax codes agree and defer the actual taxation to the time you execute the options - then they become income.

Exercised options in a private company still aren't liquid, or usable income.

Early employees at Uber had an opportunity to sell stock at a funding round. Not sure exactly how many people, but believe it was first 1000.

The form also does not let you specify regularly vesting stock for publicly traded companies.

but for example uk share shaves are zero risk and can have very high tax free payouts.