Tax Withholding. Participant agrees to make appropriate arrangements with the Company (or the Parent or Subsidiary employing or retaining Participant) for the satisfaction of all Federal, state, local and foreign income and employment tax withholding requirements applicable to the Option exercise. Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Company may refuse to honor the exercise and refuse to deliver the Shares if such withholding amounts are not delivered at the time of exercise.

You hereby agree to make adequate provision for foreign, federal, state and local taxes required by law to be withheld, if any, which arise in connection with the grant, vesting or other event relating to the Restricted Shares or in connection with the grant, vesting, earning or payment of the Performance Award. To enable the satisfaction of your tax withholding obligations with respect to the Restricted Shares through the delivery of proceeds from the sale of Shares that are issued under this Agreement on the market, you should execute Exhibit A to this Agreement and return it to the Company by the deadline set forth therein; provided that such sale of Shares shall occur only if the Company or its Affiliates do not satisfy applicable tax withholding obligations by withholding the issuance or delivery of Shares hereunder. If you have not timely executed Exhibit A to this Agreement, then you shall, immediately upon notification of the amount of withholding taxes due, if any, in connection with the Restricted Shares, pay to the Company in cash or by check the amount necessary to satisfy any withholding obligations. The Company (and its Affiliates) shall also have the right to deduct from any compensation or any other payment of any kind due you (including withholding the issuance or delivery of Shares hereunder) the amount of any federal, state, local or foreign taxes required by law to be withheld in connection with this Agreement; provided, however, that the value of the Shares withheld or redeemed for taxes may not exceed the maximum statutory rate associated with the transaction with respect to which Shares are being withheld or redeemed to the extent necessary for the Company to avoid an accounting charge.

Tax Matters. HoldCo and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts prior to the Effective Time to cause the Share Exchange to qualify as a tax-free reorganization under Section 351 of the Code. Buyer and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts prior to the Effective Time to cause the Merger to qualify as a tax-free reorganization under Section 368(a)(1) of the Code. The parties hereto shall report the Share Exchange as a reorganization under Section 351 of the Code and report the Merger as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code, and neither Buyer, Merger Sub, HoldCo nor the Company shall take any action or fail to take any action prior to or following the Closing that would reasonably be expected to cause the Merger to fail to qualify as a reorganization.

Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries each # has made or filed all United States federal, state and local income and all foreign income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, # has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations and # has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company or of any Subsidiary know of no basis for any such claim.

Tax Withholding. The Optionee shall, not later than the date as of which the exercise of this Stock Option becomes a taxable event for Federal income tax purposes, pay to the Company or make arrangements satisfactory to the Administrator for payment of any Federal, state, and local taxes required by law to be withheld on account of such taxable event. The Company shall have the authority to cause the required tax withholding obligation to be satisfied, in whole or in part, by withholding from shares of Stock to be issued to the Optionee a number of shares of Stock with an aggregate Fair Market Value that would satisfy the withholding amount due.

Tax Matters. The Company will be entitled to withhold from any payments due under the Plan the amount of tax withholding it determines, in its sole discretion, to be required by law. The Company intends that the Plan will be administered in accordance with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and other guidance promulgated thereunder (“[Section 409A]”) and that the compensation arrangements under the Plan will be exempt from [Section 409A] as “short-term deferrals” as described in [Section 409A]. The Plan will be construed in a manner to give effect to such intention. In accordance therewith, a Covered Executive’s right to receive any installment payments under this Plan shall be treated as a right to receive a series of separate and distinct payments. To the extent that any provision of the Plan is ambiguous as to its exemption from [Section 409A], the provision will be read in such a manner so that all payments hereunder are exempt from or comply with Section 409A. To the extent that any bonus payment under the Plan is determined to constitute “nonqualified deferred compensation” within the meaning of [Section 409A], the bonus payment will be subject to such additional rules and requirements as specified by the Compensation Committee from time to time in order to comply with Section 409A. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no representation or warranty and shall have no liability to a Covered Executive or any other person if any provision of this Plan, or any bonus payment hereunder, is determined to constitute deferred compensation subject to Section 409A but does not satisfy an exemption from, or the conditions of, [Section 409A].

Tax Withholding. Participant authorizes the Company to deduct, to the extent required by statute or regulation, from payments of any kind due to Participant or anyone claiming through Participant, the aggregate amount of any federal, state, local or other taxes required to be withheld in respect of any present or future Award under the Plan.

To the extent required by law, the Non-Employee Director (or Grantee, if applicable) shall make such arrangements satisfactory to the Company to satisfy any tax withholding or employment tax obligations due with respect to Restricted Stock or the Deferred Accounts. The Company shall have the right to withhold or deduct from any payment under the Plan in order to satisfy any applicable tax withholding obligations.

Tax Matters. Except as set forth on [Schedule 3.17]: # the Company has timely filed all Tax Returns required to have been filed by it; # all such Tax Returns are accurate and complete in all material respects; # the Company has paid all Taxes owed by it which were due and payable (whether or not shown on any Tax Return); # the Company has complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws relating to Tax; # the Company is not currently the beneficiary of any extension of time within which to file any Tax Return; # there is no current Action against the Company in writing by a Governmental Authority in a jurisdiction where the Company does not file Tax Returns that the Company is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction; # there are no pending or ongoing audits of the Company’s Tax Returns by a Governmental Authority of which the Company has received notice thereof; # the Company has not requested or received any ruling from, or signed any binding agreement with, any Governmental Authority, with respect to Taxes that would apply to any Tax periods ending after the Closing Date; # there are no Liens on any of the assets of the Company that arose in connection with any failure (or alleged failure) to pay any Tax; # no unpaid Tax deficiency has been asserted in writing against or with respect to the Company by any Governmental Authority which Tax remains unpaid; # the Company has collected or withheld all Taxes currently required to be collected or withheld by it, and all such Taxes have been paid to the appropriate Governmental Authorities or set aside in appropriate accounts for future payment when due; # the Company has not granted or is subject to, any waiver of the period of limitations for the assessment of Tax for any currently open taxable period; # the Company is not required to include in income any amount for an adjustment pursuant to Section 481 of the Code or the Regulations thereunder with respect to a change in accounting methods made prior to the Closing; # the Company is not a party to any Tax allocation or sharing agreement (other than an agreement (such as a lease) the principal purpose of which is not the sharing or allocation of Tax); # there is no Contract or Benefit Plan covering any Person that, individually or collectively, could give rise to the payment of any amount that would not be deductible by the Company by reason of [Section 280G] or Section 162(m) of the Code, and no arrangement exists pursuant to which the Company or Buyer will be required to “gross up” or otherwise compensate any Person because of the imposition of any Tax on a payment to such Person; # the Company has not been a beneficiary of or participated in any “reportable transaction” within the meaning of Regulations [Section 1.6011-4(b)(1)])] that was, is, or to the Knowledge of the Company will ever be, required to be disclosed under Regulations [Section 1.6011-4]4]; # no Tax Return filed by or on behalf of the Company has contained a disclosure statement under Section 6662 of the Code (or any similar provision of Law), and no Tax Return has been filed by or on behalf of the Company with respect to which the preparer of such Tax Return advised consideration of inclusion of such a disclosure, which disclosure was not made; # the Company has not taken any action outside of the Ordinary Course of Business that would have the effect of deferring a measure of Tax from a period (or portion thereof) ending on or before the Closing Date to a period (or portion thereof) beginning after the Closing Date; # the Company does not have a “permanent establishment” in any foreign country, as defined in any applicable Tax treaty or convention between the United States of America and such foreign country, or has otherwise taken steps or conducted business operations that have materially exposed, or will materially expose, it to the taxing jurisdiction of a foreign country; # the Company is materially in compliance with the terms and conditions of any applicable Tax exemptions, Tax agreements or Tax orders of any Taxing Authority to which it may be subject or which it may have claimed, and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not have any material and adverse effect on such compliance; # no written power of attorney which is currently in force has been granted by or with respect to the Company with respect to any matter relating to Taxes; and # no Seller is a “foreign person” for purposes of Section 1445 of the Code.

Tax Prorations. All taxes and assessments (including pending assessments if the related improvement is substantially completed as of the Closing Date), whether payable in installments or not, for the year of closing will be prorated to the Closing Date based on the latest available tax rate and assessment valuation (with the parties signing a proration agreement as to adjustments when actual taxes are known).