Company: BFRG
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-013736
Chunk: 38

Company: BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 38
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 when the stock option was exercised will be treated as long-term or short-term capital gain or loss.

If an optionee pays for shares of stock on exercise of an option by delivering shares of common stock, the optionee will not recognize gain or loss on the shares delivered, even if the fair market value of such shares differs from the optionee’s tax basis in such shares. The optionee, however, will be taxed on the exercise of the option in the manner described above as if he or she had paid the exercise price in cash. The tax basis of the shares received upon exercise will be the tax basis of the shares delivered as payment, share for share, to the extent the number of shares received equals the number of shares delivered as payment. In addition, the holding period of the shares received will include the holding period of the shares delivered as payment. The optionee’s tax basis and holding period for any shares received in excess of the number of shares delivered by the optionee will be the same as if the optionee had exercised the option solely in exchange for cash.

Upon an optionee’s exercise of a nonqualified stock option, the Company or the applicable subsidiary will generally be entitled to a deduction for U.S. federal income tax purposes at such time and in the same amount recognized as ordinary income to the optionee, subject to the possible limitations on deductibility under Section 280G of the Code for compensation paid to executives designated in those Sections, and provided that the Company effects withholding with respect to the deemed compensation.

Incentive Stock Options. The Plan provides for the grant of stock options that qualify as incentive stock options (“ISOs”) as defined in section 422 of the Code. Under the Code, an optionee generally is not subject to tax upon the grant or exercise of an ISO. In addition, if the optionee holds a share of stock received on exercise of an ISO for at least two years from the date the option was granted and at least one year from the date the option was exercised (the “Required Holding Period”), the difference, if any, between the amount realized on a sale or other taxable disposition of that share and the holder’s tax basis in that share will be long-term capital gain or loss.

If, however, an optionee disposes of a share of stock acquired on exercise of an ISO before the end of the Required Holding Period (a “Disqualifying Disposition”), the optionee generally will recognize ordinary income in the year of the Disqualifying Disposition equal to the excess,