Share Option Schemes

We can advise on the various options available to you as an employer to retain and give incentive to key staff. These include:

• Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) – an approved scheme now very popular with smaller companies. It is cost effective and is a good way of creating loyalty, motivation and securing the long term future of employees
• Share Incentive Plan (SIP) – another approved scheme but requires all employees to be included , so less popular as it cannot be as selective as EMI
• Company Share Ownership Plan (CSOP) – approved and similar in nature to EMI but with different time limits, monetary limits on options and a lesser CGT advantage
• Unapproved share options – no ‘approved’ tax advantages but very flexible

We can advise on the best scheme to suit your business and can assist in set-up, maintenance and compliance of all schemes including all registration, compliance, share valuation and ongoing correspondence with HMRC.