Usenet Newsgroups Canada From: alackrity@comcast.net (Ala) I just noticed that Canada is doing a great deal in its recent tax law changes to streamline and improve investment in tech and it companies or so the headlines would have you believe They seem to have made it harder to take deductions when you sell your stock options. but you can defer some of the income now. the other change that is suppposed to help is if you lost money in your stock options while you elected to defer the income. in some cases, without the tax change, the tax was adding up to more than the profit from the stock option.  That's outright disgusting Subject  Canada