How does s. 7(1)(e) apply if a deceased employee held unvested stock options which therefore are not exercisable after death? CRA stated:
…Where the terms of the owned unexercised stock option provide that the stock options are automatically cancelled in the event of the employee's death, the value of the options immediately after death, and the paragraph 7(1)(e) benefit, will be nil. If the employee stock options are not vested prior to the employee's death, the employee would not own unexercised stock options prior to their death and paragraph 7(1)(e) would not apply.