ESOP allowability and its impact on Corporate Inc.

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Employee Stock Option Plan ESOP allowability of the expenditure

Sanjiv Kumar Chaudhary – [2021] 131 taxmann.com 277 (Article)

Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP – as it is popularly known) is an effective way of retaining the talent of the company and is adopted by Corporate Inc. to remunerate the employees in lieu of cash emoluments.
In this article, we are dealing with a recent decision of the Bangalore Tribunal on the aspect of allowability of the expenditure in the year of vesting and on the requirement to deduct tax on the ESOP discount in the hands of the employees.

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