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Featured · Tax · March 2026

ESOP perquisite rules: what founders must withhold in 2026

Most option plans are drafted for the grant and forgotten by the time anyone exercises. This is where the tax actually lands — and how to keep an employee from owing more cash than the shares are worth on paper.

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