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Comment by Philipp Herkelmann

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Author of EU-ESOP startup equity proposal
Employees will only be faced with a tax event at the point of sale [...] there should be no tax event prior to that.
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Apply taxes on stock options only when sold
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports taxation only at sale: it says employees face a tax event 'at the point of sale' and that there should be 'no tax event prior to that,' which matches applying tax only when sold. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports taxing only at sale: "tax event at the point of sale" and "no tax event prior to that." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The exact source URL contains the first fragment, "Employees will only be faced with a tax event at the point of sale.", and later on the same page the sentence ending "there should be no tax event prior to that." The page also lists "Owner Philipp Herkelmann," supporting attribution. The site’s authors page further lists Philipp Herkelmann as a core-team member and project lead. ([proposal.eu-inc.org](https://proposal.eu-inc.org/2-EU-ESOP-14d076fd79c581199306fd41ad8c3e40)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (Notion-hosted proposal.eu-inc.org) returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch and the exact phrase is not indexed in web search. Philipp Herkelmann is confirmed as a co-initiator of EU Inc / EU-ESOP, and the substance of the quote (taxation deferred to point of sale, no prior tax event) accurately reflects the publicly described EU-ESOP proposal. The vote "for" aligns with the statement "Apply taxes on stock options only when sold." Marking as ai_unverifiable because I cannot directly read the source page to confirm the exact wording. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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