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Employees will now have to pay taxes on perquisites given to them by their employers as the Central Board of Direct Taxes has notified the much-awaited rules for valuation of the benefits. With these rules, the fringe benefit tax (FBT) being paid by employers for giving non-cash benefits, including cars and employee stock options (ESOPs), to employees will be abolished and replaced with a regime that will tax the perquisites in the hands of the employees. It could mean less take-home pay for employees.
Previously, under the controversial fringe-benefit tax (FBT) regime, these perks were taxed at the hands of the employer. However, as exclusively reported by FE earlier, the new norms are almost a replica of the erstwhile Rule 3 of the Income-Tax Rules, which was largely rolled back in 2005 with the introduction of FBT.