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Do taxes cloud novelty of SARs ?
Stock Appreciation Rights, also known as SARs are a novel way of rewarding the employees of an organisation by granting them the right to benefit from any appreciation in the value of the common stock (shares) of a corporation. However, they pose many interesting questions from the taxation point of view. Are benefits under SARs taxable as income from salary, are they capital gains, do they represent only notional gains?
Ratio decidendi
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- Interest on refund allowable when delay in raising legal claim and not in proceedings – Gujarat High Court
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