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Tax update spring 2025—Tax analysis

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How do I contact HMRC with a share schemes related query?

How do I contact HMRC with a share schemes related query?

How do I contact HMRC with a share schemes related query?HMRC consists of specialist departments dealing with specific areas of employment related...

Malus and clawback

Malus and clawback

Malus and clawbackThe use of malus and clawbackThe concept of withholding or even recovering value from executives if a material adverse event occurs...

Tax implications of salary sacrifice

Tax implications of salary sacrifice

Tax implications of salary sacrificeCoronavirus (COVID-19): As part of a series of measures put in place to stop the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19),...

Corporation tax relief and employee share schemes

Corporation tax relief and employee share schemes

Corporation tax relief and employee share schemesCorporation tax deduction for costs incurred in setting up and operating employee share schemesCosts...

Practice notes

Underwater share options

Underwater share optionsWhat is an underwater share option?'Underwater option' is the term used to describe a share option (granted under any share...
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2nd Mar
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Q&As

What happens to restricted stock units or stock options that have vested during an employee's notice period (assuming the employee is still employed at the vesting date)?

What happens to restricted stock units or stock options that have vested during an employee's notice period (assuming the employee is still employed...
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1st Mar
Practice notes

Comparison of UK and US share incentive arrangements

Comparison of UK and US share incentive arrangementsCompanies in both the US and the UK have a long history of involving employees in equity...
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Produced in partnership with Jonathan Fletcher Rogers of Addleshaw Goddard
28th Mar
Practice notes

Nil paid shares and partly paid shares—practical considerations

Nil paid shares and partly paid shares—practical considerationsWhat are nil paid shares and partly paid shares?When shares are issued, their...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Growth shares—practical examples and comparisons with options

Growth shares—practical examples and comparisons with optionsWhat are growth shares?Growth shares, also known as value shares or hurdle shares, are a...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

What is a long-term incentive plan?

What is a long-term incentive plan?A long-term incentive plan (LTIP) is a term that is commonly used among listed companies to describe executive...
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Produced in partnership with Jeremy Edwards of Baker McKenzie
28th Mar
Practice notes

Unapproved share options—tax treatment

Unapproved share options—tax treatmentSpecific income tax rules (in sections 471–487 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (Part 7,...
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1st Mar
Practice notes

EMI—HMRC annual return

EMI—HMRC annual returnThis Practice Note details the following:•the EMI annual return form•the pre-registration and timing of completion of the annual...
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1st Mar
Practice notes

Employee share schemes—dealing with leavers

Employee share schemes—dealing with leaversWhat are leavers?Departing individuals are known generically as ‘leavers’ but the reason behind the...
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Produced in partnership with Jenny Wheater of Duane Morris LLP
2nd Mar
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Practice notes

An introduction to deferred share bonus plans

An introduction to deferred share bonus plansDeferred share bonus: key elementsDeferred share bonus plans are typically constituted by the following...
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Produced in partnership with Jeremy Glover (Share Schemes)
28th Mar
Practice notes

Implementing share plans—ways to manage dilution of existing shareholders

Implementing share plans—ways to manage dilution of existing shareholdersWhat is share dilution?Share dilution happens when a company issues...
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2nd Mar
Precedents

Notice of exercise of option

Notice of exercise of optionThe Company Secretary[insert date of letter][insert name of company who granted the option] (Company)[[insert address of...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Understanding US non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements and Internal Revenue Code Section 409A

Understanding US non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements and Internal Revenue Code Section 409ARelevance of non-qualified deferred...
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Produced in partnership with Michael Falk of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Sherene Awad Jodrey of Aon plc
2nd Mar
Practice notes

What is a SIP?

What is a SIP?This Practice Note provides an introduction to the HMRC tax-advantaged share incentive plan (SIP). It provides a summary of:•the types...
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Produced in partnership with Jonathan Fletcher Rogers of Addleshaw Goddard
28th Mar
Practice notes

Long-term incentive plans—benefits and issues

Long-term incentive plans—benefits and issuesA long-term incentive plan (LTIP) is a term that is commonly used among listed companies to describe...
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Produced in partnership with Gill Parnell of Baker McKenzie and Jeremy Edwards of Baker McKenzie
28th Mar
Practice notes

EMI valuations for EMI schemes

EMI valuations for EMI schemesRestricted shares and EMI valuationsRestricted shares are shares which are subject to any restrictions described in...
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1st Mar

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SIPs—capital gains tax and corporation tax

SIPs—capital gains tax and corporation taxFORTHCOMING CHANGE: Following its announcement as part of the Spring Budget on 15 March 2023, HMRC published a call for evidence on how to improve and simplify non-discretionary tax-advantaged Save As You Earn (SAYE) and Share Incentive Plan (SIP) schemes on

If planning permission imposes restrictions on a licensed premises opening hours, once operational can

If planning permission imposes restrictions on a licensed premises opening hours, once operational can the personal licence holder apply for a Temporary Events Notice (TEN) to open for longer hours than those permitted in the planning permission?To use any property for a licensable activity both

Micklefield clauses

Micklefield clausesWhat is a Micklefield clause?It is common for employee share plans to provide that, on termination of employment (or when an employee is given or receives notice of termination of employment), subsisting share awards will be forfeited and subsisting share options will lapse.It is

Financial clean break orders in family proceedings

Financial clean break orders in family proceedingsDuty of the court to consider a clean breakAlthough there is no presumption in favour of there being a financial clean break between parties on divorce, the court is under a duty to consider whether it would be appropriate to exercise its powers so