Taxation logo taxation mission text

Since 1927 the leading authority on tax law, practice and administration

Pairing up

02 August 2011 / Philip Fisher
Issue: 4315 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Employees , Income Tax
PHILIP FISHER suggests employee share schemes should be simplified

KEY POINTS

  • The competing factors in the simplification debate.
  • Is there a natural pairing-off of EMI and CSOP and SIP and SAYE schemes?
  • A look at the problems of EMI and CSOP.
  • The ‘partnership shares’ element of SIP might include SAYE.
  • Could the requirement for a trust in a SIP be abolished?
  • A simplification of the PAYE/NIC liabilities might help.

Having done its best to take the complexity out of tax reliefs and to start working on small business taxation the Office of Tax Simplification announced in early July that among its next three targets will be employee share schemes.

...

If you or your firm subscribes to Taxation.co.uk, please click the login box below:

If you are not a subscriber but are a registered user or have a free trial, please enter your details in the following boxes:

Alternatively, you can register free of charge to read a limited amount of subscriber content per month.
Once you have registered, you will receive an email directing you back to read this item in full.
back to top icon