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Tax advantages on employee share schemes including Share Incentive Plans, Save As You Earn, Company Share Option Plans and Enterprise Management Incentives
Your employer may offer you company shares as a reward for working for…
This gives you the option to regularly save and buy shares. If you get…
This is a savings-related share scheme where you can buy shares with your…
This gives you the option to buy up to £60,000 worth of shares from 6…
A company can offer you Enterprise Management Incentives (EMIs) if it has…
To be an employee shareholder, you must own shares in your employer’s…
You can transfer up to £20,000 of employee shares into a stocks and shares…
The ‘gain’ is the profit you make when you sell shares that have increased…
When to operate PAYE if your employee gets incentive awards from you or someone else.
Government is seeking views on the role of incentives in general practice.
A common framework and guidance on incentives policies.
Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation
SFI has been expanded and improved based on farmers’ feedback to include 50 new actions and a 10% increase in the average value of agreements.
Find out about changes announced at Spring Budget 2023, as well as forthcoming changes to end of year return templates.
Government incentives for CHP schemes
£1,000 incentive payments for employers who host placements between 27 May 2021 and 31 July 2022.
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) for businesses, public sector and non-profit organisations - payments from the government to help with the cost of installing renewable heat technologies
Find out how venture capital schemes work, who can apply and what tax reliefs are available for your investors.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing awards for employee suggestions
This Call for Evidence sought views on how the Enterprise Management Incentives scheme is operating and whether it should be expanded. The Call for Evidence has concluded, and a Summary of Responses has been published.
Call for expressions of interest from farmers to take part in the first phase of piloting the new Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme.
This guidance explains what might happen to your entitlement to benefits if you buy shares through a Share Incentive Plan.
Schemes offering people shares in their employer are set for a shake up as the government explores changes that will help boost business growth, supporting the Prime Minister’s priority to grow the economy.
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