Taxes are only deferred. This is good for employees NOT for employers. The current/old method coul create severe Problems for the employee: People working fo

Taxes are only deferred. This is good for employees NOT for employers. The current/old method coul create severe Problems for the employee: People working for an extreme very successfull Startups like Google, Facebook and the like, could become very rich on paper. Imagine an income of 200 Thousand and quite suddenly 2 Million in Stocks. Now they had to pay taxes on the 2 Million from their normal income, since they couldn't or didn't want to sell their stock Options yet. 200k income 400k taxes? Yes you're fucked.