The Major Corporation (EDS) I used to work for would not allow us to use the EPP because their lawyers told them that they were required to charge the employee tax on the differance between retail that the store price. They believed that the tax law said they had to treat the benifit as part of your compensation.
They deemed it too much of a burden. So if they were right, then it was the IRS that killed the EPP program.
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