If the company did do a buyback of your stocks, it would be capital gains income. If you have own the stocks for more than one year, you would be taxed at the long-term capital gains rate, which is much more favorable than an ordinary tax rate.
If you own the stocks one year or less, it would be taxed as a short term capital gain and taxed as ordinary income.
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