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How to report RSUs and ESOPs allotted by your Employers Foreign Company

How to report RSUs and ESOPs allotted by your Employers Foreign Company

17 Jul, 2026

๐„๐’๐Ž๐๐’ & ๐‘๐’๐”๐ฌ allotted in the ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ฒ (๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š) fall under ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ & ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š.

๐‹๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐†๐š๐ข๐ง earned on such sale of ๐‘๐’๐”๐ฌ & ๐„๐’๐Ž๐๐ฌ are taxable at the ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ 12.5% ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š without any indexation benefit. ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง shall be taxable at ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ.

Normally, ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ are also distributed to the ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐Œ๐๐‚โ€™๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ. It shall be ๐ญ๐š๐ฑ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐› ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š.

Under the following schedules, the above income has to be disclosed:

๐’๐œ๐ก๐ž๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž ๐…๐’๐ˆ Since the ๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐†๐š๐ข๐ง & ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ pertains to foreign shares, it shall be disclosed under this schedule FSI under the head Income from Capital Gain. Further, tax paid outside India shall also be disclosed alongwith tax payable in India if such income has been subject to tax in India.

Usually, on dividends withholding taxes are deducted by foreign MNCs.

Foreign Tax Credit shall be restricted to the lower of:
๐Ÿ“ foreign tax paid, or
๐Ÿ“Indian tax payable on such foreign income.

๐’๐œ๐ก๐ž๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž ๐“๐‘ If any withholding Tax has been deducted by the employer & deposited in the Source country, then tax relief can be claimed in India as โ€˜Foreign Tax Creditโ€™.

๐‘ฐ๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’•: ๐‘ป๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’‚๐’Š๐’Ž ๐‘ญ๐’๐’“๐’†๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’™ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’…๐’Š๐’• ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’…๐’Š๐’‚, ๐’Š๐’• ๐’Š๐’” ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’‚๐’•๐’๐’“๐’š ๐’•๐’ ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’† ๐‘ญ๐’๐’“๐’Ž 67 ๐’‘๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’“ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’† ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’™ ๐’“๐’†๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’.

๐’๐œ๐ก๐ž๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž ๐…๐€ It includes the details of foreign assets & income derived from sources outside India. ๐‘๐’๐”'๐ฌ ๐„๐’๐Ž๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐„๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ will need to be disclosed Column A3 which includes foreign equity & debt interest held be the taxpayer in foreign entities.

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