Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
  
  A plan under which key employees are given the right to purchase shares of the company at a future date on favourable terms. Under the USA Internal Revenue Code, if a plan meets certain requirements, employees can purchase stock at 85%of market price without any USA tax consequence, though the rules in other countries are different.
  
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