YOKOHAMA – The Yokohama District Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit filed by former employees of four foreign-affiliated companies asking to rescind the imposition of higher tax rates on income earned from stock-options deals.
In levying taxes on proceeds from the sale of shares by exercising stock options, tax authorities impose the same rates applied to salary income. Such rates are higher than those imposed on nonrecurring income.
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