24 July 2011
My company offers ESPP at a 15% discount. Every one some part of the salary after tax gets deducted as a contribution to ESPP corpus. At the end of the six months the stock are purchased at 15% discount of Market Price.The company is listed in US Stock Exchange? I am not sure how the ESPP are taxed for stocks listed in US in short term and long term
25 July 2011
So it means whether i sell the shares after holding them for 1-year or just after alloment i.e.short-term...in both cases tax will arise.As in case of short term it will be treated as extra income on hand and taxed accordingly while for Long term if i recall it correctly its 20%