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A recently released survey of 200 mostly new economy companies by the consulting firm iQuantic shows that the percentage of high-technology employees getting options was 30% to 50% higher in 1999 than in was four years earlier.

Results from the 2011 National Association of Stock Plan Professionals/Deloitte Consulting survey show that employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs) continue to be an important part of public companies' equity strategies.

Next month, the NCEO will launch a brand-new program for ESOP companies to administer Ownership Culture Surveys to employee-owners while collaborating and networking with fellow employee-owned companies in the process.

On November 13, Business Insider took its readers on a virtual tour of Wawa

The NCEO is conducting a survey of equity compensation practices in closely held companies. If your company provides stock options, phantom stock, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, or similar awards to one or more employees, we hope you can take our new, brief survey on this issue.

Does your company talk about employee ownership?

Aside from the Subchapter S and section 133 provisions of H.R. 3448 described in the last update, the small business tax relief bill working its way through Congress contains other important provisions affecting employee ownership as well.

The tax bill now before the Senate, and the bill that passed the House, contain no provisions directly affecting ESOPs, nor do they contain previous provisions that would have taxed stock awards at vesting.

On October 22, 2004, the President signed the American Jobs Creation Act tax bill. The bill contains several changes important to S corporation ESOPs and to equity compensation plans.

On October 6, the House approved a House-Senate conference committee's compromise language on the massive 650-page American Jobs Creation Act tax bill. The bill appears likely to pass the Senate either by mid-October or when Congress returns for a lame-duck post-election session.