Assertion: employee stock option | /r/ObjectUse | used as means
Facets:
value: widely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The employee stock option was widely used as a means of supplementing the compensation of high-salaried employees after 1950, when federal income-tax provisions permitted the “spread” between high market price and the lower option price to be treated, upon sale of the stock, as capital gain, taxable at a 25 percent ceiling rather than the higher personal income-tax rates.