| COURT: | ITAT Chennai |
| CORAM: | A. Mohan Alankamony (AM), N.R.S. Ganesan (JM) |
| SECTION(S): | 15, 17(2)(vi), 45, 48 |
| GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
| CATCH WORDS: | capital gains, ESOP, salaries |
| COUNSEL: | M. Sivathanu |
| DATE: | October 24, 2018 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | November 21, 2018 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | 2011-12 |
| FILE: | Click here to view full post with file download link |
| CITATION: | |
| S. 17(2)(vi) Perquisite: Gains arising to an employee from sale of shares allotted under ESOP (Employees Stock Option Plan) by foreign parent company cannot be assessed as "salaries". It is assessable as "capital gains". Fact that employer has shown the gains as "perquisite" in Form 16 is irrelevant | |
The assessee had already acquired the asset viz., “stock” from the employee’s stock options scheme when he was serving abroad in the parent company and during that assessment year, the assessee was non-resident. Therefore during the beginning of the relevant assessment year, the stock viz., the asset was already vested on the assessee. Any gain on sale arising out of such asset during the relevant assessment year when he is a resident but NOR has to be necessarily treated as capital gain in the hands of the assessee as per the provisions of the act
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