Finance - The advantage with ELSS compared to the Ulips is the frequency (mostly a single or a monthly investment for a year) and term for investment, for getting good returns....
Read MoreFinance - Sweat Equity Shares are Shares or Specified Securities issued at discount or for consideration other than cash to employees or directors of the company as reward their hard work or for their value addition in the progress of the company . These are generally issue in lieu of value additions and against providing Intellectual Property R...
Read MoreFinance - Indian Premier League (IPL) and cricket have generated public interest on the subject, `sweat equity ‘shares issue. Survey reveals, very few people have clear idea on the procedure of issue of sweat equity shares. What caused hue and cry is the subject of surrender of sweat equity shares issued to Sunanda Pushkar( `PUSHKAR’) in Rende...
Read MoreFinance - The valuation of shares and specified securities in relation to employee stock option have been brought under Rule 3 itself, and Rules 40C and 40D of the Income-tax Rules will no longer be apply. Consistent with the change in law as regards the point of time (exercise) when such liability has to be determined, the rule now prescribes that...
Read MoreFinance - Currently, certain prescribed fringe benefits provided by an employer to his employees are liable to FBT in the hands of the employer. Such fringe benefits are not included within the scope of ‘perquisites’ as defined in section 17. As FBT will now be abolished, ‘perquisites’ will include the following: 1. Presently, FBT is levied...
Read MoreFinance - How is the FBT to be valued? And when is the tax payable? The fringe benefit is to be valued at the fair market value (FMV) of the security or sweat equity share on the date of vesting of the option minus any amount paid by / recovered from the employee for such security or shares. The FMV is to be determined a s per the method to be pre...
Read More264/2007 - (23/10/2007) - NOTIFICATION NO. 264/2007, DATED 23-10-2007 Valuation of specified security or sweat equity share being a share in the company. 40C. (1) For the purposes of clause (ba) of sub-section (1) of section 115WC, the fair market value of any specified security or sweat equity share, being an equity share i...
Read MoreEXTENSION OF DUE DATE OF PAYMENT OF THE FIRST AND SECOND INSTALLMENT OF ADVANCE FBT ON ESOPS - (12/09/2007) - By virtue of the provision of clause (d) of sub-section (1) section 115 WB, introduced by Finance Act, 2007, an employer is liable to pay Fringe Benefit Tax on any consideration for employment provided by way of any specified security or sweat equity shares allotted or transferred, directly or indir...
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