Budget 2020: Despite ‘Fixing’, ESOP Remains A Much-Abused Acronym

India taxes ESOPs, ie employees stock options, harshly, very harshly. Let me give you a quick history lesson. When I founded TV18 in the early 90s, we had given generous stock options to our critical team members. In that sense, we belonged to a clutch of ESOP pioneers in India. And since we were leaders in business news, we also drilled hard into issues around entrepreneurship, taxation and union budgets. Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices