Question: Before Lemon Corporation was taken private in a transaction engineered by its largest stockholder, some of Lemon's employees had unexercised options to purchase stock of
Before Lemon Corporation was taken private in a transaction engineered by its largest stockholder, some of Lemon's employees had unexercised options to purchase stock of Lemon. Under an employee agreement, Lemon canceled the unexercised stock options by paying the employees the difference between the option price and the current fair market value of Lemon's stock. These employees reported this as ordinary income. Can Lemon Corporation deduct these payments to the employees, or are these termination payments treated as capital expenditures?
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