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99x3: Certificates of Divestiture and Capital Gains

March 16, 1999

At the time of this opinion, the sale of stock obtained through the exercise of incentive stock options did not result in capital gains under the Internal Revenue code.  OGE could not issue a certificate of divestiture to the employee who owned the stock options.

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