Esops

What are employee stock options, how they are taxed?

What are employee stock options, how they are taxed?

1 min read . 11 Jun 2019

Share allotment date taken as Esop holding period

Share allotment date taken as Esop holding period

3 min read . 28 Jan 2019

A couple of recent interesting tribunal decisions have now thrown up some new aspects of taxation of Esops. Photo: iStock

Can Esop income be taxed as capital gains?

3 min read . 29 Nov 2018

Apart from being the largest-ever deal for Indian startups, Walmart’s Flipkart share buyback is the biggest wealth creation event in Bengaluru after the historic listing of Infosys in the late 1990s. Photo: Bloomberg

Wealth managers eye Flipkart crorepatis post Walmart payout

3 min read . 12 Nov 2018

Eastman Auto and Power follows the likes of Flipkart, Housing and Snapdeal in offering ESOPs to its employees. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Ahead of IPO, Eastman Auto and Power offers ESOPs to staff

1 min read . 25 May 2018

Most quick millionaires go bankrupt soon

4 min read . 16 May 2018

Flipkart employees have the option to liquidate their vested ESOP in three instalments. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Tax impact of Flipkart, and not Walmart, buying ESOPs

4 min read . 15 May 2018

For former employees, it’s particularly shocking because Flipkart had been the fairest employer among all Indian start-ups in terms of offering ESOPs. Photo: Reuters

Flipkart’s ESOPs fable has a bitter twist for ex employees

2 min read . 15 May 2018

Flipkart group CEO Binny Bansal. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

After Walmart deal, Flipkart yet to reach out to some former employees

1 min read . 15 May 2018

Flipkart is expecting the closure of Walmart deal and regulatory approvals over the next 60 to 90 days. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Flipkart employees to get $125-129 per share for ESOPs in Walmart deal

1 min read . 15 May 2018

The $16 billion Flipkart-Walmart deal would have just added to the paper profits of those holding ESOPs, except for the announcement of a $500 million war chest to buy back shares and ESOPs from existing and former Flipkart employees. Photo: AP

4 money lessons for Flipkart’s crorepati employees post Walmart deal

5 min read . 14 May 2018

Minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha. The government disinvestment process is expected to get completed by September. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

VRS, ESOPs on the cards for Air India employees: Jayant Sinha

3 min read . 04 Apr 2018

According to the Air India privatisation plan, the government will sell 76% stake in Air India along with 100% stake in Air India Express Ltd and 50% in Air India SATS Airport Services. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint

Air India sale: Government can sell residual stake whenever it chooses to

2 min read . 30 Mar 2018

In the past five years, Flipkart has completed at least four such buybacks, though none on the scale of the latest programme. Photo: Mint

Flipkart completes buyback of employee stock options worth $100 million

1 min read . 14 Dec 2017

BlackBuck has 985 staffers across functions like technology and product, supply management and business development, apart from 200 more contract workers.

Online freight aggregator BlackBuck buys back some ESOPs from employees

2 min read . 31 Oct 2017

Finance minister Arun Jaitley introduced amendments in the Income Tax Act this year to deny the LTCG tax exemption in all cases where securities transaction tax is not paid, except the notified ones. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint

Finance Act 2017: ESOPs, FDI deals exempted from LTCG tax

2 min read . 07 Jun 2017

According to Infosys’ financial statements that outline compensation to key executives, Sikka received only $3.68 million of the $8 million variable component that he was promised. Photo: Mint

Infosys’s Vishal Sikka takes home only 61% of eligible pay

2 min read . 14 Apr 2017

SpiceJet plans to give ESOPs as reward for reviving airline

2 min read . 29 Nov 2016

Nitin Seth, chief people officer and strategy head at e-commerce firm Flipkart.

Over a third of Flipkart’s employees get ESOPs

2 min read . 29 Sep 2016

Employee costs are one of the largest areas of expense for e-commerce companies, after marketing and discounts. By replacing cash with stock, Flipkart is cutting part of its spending on salaries. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Flipkart converts part of variable pay to ESOPs for executives

3 min read . 26 Sep 2016