Motivate and retain your top performers through competitive pay packages and share incentives, and keep everyone focussed on your long-term growth. Our skill is in helping you to navigate your way through the choices and decide on a plan that works best for your company.
Key to the best and most competitive pay packages in many sectors is share incentives, whether stock options or shares. We advise on all four of HMRC’s tax-advantaged plans, also referred to as their “approved plans”. These are:
As well as these HMRC tax-favoured plans, we can advise you on equity incentive plans that give tax advantages, but are not one of the four plans above – such as:
Having helped you select the plan that’s right for you, we then work with you to design it. We help you determine the right vesting period and the right performance conditions or KPIs ,and help you to link the vesting to the performance conditions.
Alongside specialist share scheme lawyers, we can then put the plan in place including all legal drafting, tax advice and reporting and share valuation. This includes agreeing that value with HMRC where this is possible.
Key to most equity incentive plans is valuing for tax purposes the company’s involved shares. We can prepare these valuations, whether or not we are implementing your plan. We can also value options and share incentives for accounting purposes as required by UK and international accounting standards such as FRS102 in the UK.
An important but dull task is the annual essential online reporting to HMRC. We can do that for you, taking that headache away.
Many studies show that companies with increasing employee ownership are more productive, profitable, competitive and sustainable. Where the situation is right for you and your company, we can help you transition to employee ownership as part of your succession plan. We can steer you through the choices, including using the government’s tax-favoured vehicle for facilitating this, the Employee Ownership Trust.
Get in touch and let’s make your employee benefits top-shelf.
Employee trusts have been used by employers for a number of purposes to benefit their employees. Such trusts (employee benefit trusts being one example) have been around for a number of years. The UK tax legislation has always given employee trusts tax advantages where they are implemented to genuinely benefit a company’s wider employee base.
Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) option plans are tax-advantaged share options. They provide the option-holder with the opportunity to acquire shares in their employer at an agreed exercise price.
Specialised share schemes (including share options) are those plans that are neither approved by HM Revenue & Customs nor receive statutory tax advantages, such as Enterprise Management incentives (EMI). Specialised schemes, or “unapproved plans”, can often achieve tax efficiency for either the employee or the company but, unlike approved plans, not both.
A JSOP is a tax efficient means of linking employee and employee reward to growth in the value of the employing company or group
The whole team are exceedingly knowledgeable and the main benefit of working with MHA MacIntyre Hudson is the reassurance I feel that our business is in safe hands. Hayley Wilson - Fenmarc
Finance Director
My favourite benefit of working with MHA MacIntyre Hudson is having access to a huge network of knowledge but still having the direct personal feel when dealing with the local office team. Callum Bates -
J Bates & Son