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If you sell RSUs immediately upon vesting, there is no capital gains, only ordinary income.

What likely happened is that the supplemental withholding rate (22% for supplemental income up to $1 million, and 37% for income exceeding that amount) was lower than your marginal tax bracket, and the tax you owed was a result of the supplemental income (the RSUs) incurring more tax liability than was withheld for them.



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