
QSBS: the section 1202 tests get answered on your balance sheet, and July 2025 changed which version you get
Whether your stock is QSBS is decided by the company's own records at specific moments in the past. Here is what section 1202 actually measures, which of your shares the July 2025 changes reach, and the buyback rule that the statute states one way and the regulation states another.
Investor Readiness · September 14, 2026




