Simon Down and Alex Ali Marks (Deloitte) review the rules for payments for employees using their private car for business journeys in light of a recent Upper Tribunal decision.
Fehzaan Ismail and Aimee Rotherforth (EY) consider how the statutory provisions relating to unpaid cash remuneration may impact ordinary commercial reorganisations.
It would seem logical that any asset provided by a company to their employees or directors should be deemed part of their remuneration for tax purposes. However, the legal position is not always so clear, write Liesl Fichardt and Emily Au (Quinn Emanuel).
While the Supreme Court judgment in Vermilion provides clarity on some of the questions raised by the deeming rule, it does not touch on questions raised by a number of other common scenarios, writes Nigel Doran (Macfarlanes).
Many (although not all) of HMRC’s proposals on employee benefit trusts and employee ownership trusts will improve the tax rules, writes Matthew Rowbotham (Lewis Silkin).
Rebecca Seeley Harris (Re Legal Consulting) has been campaigning for the regulation of the umbrella company industry and the protection of the worker, under the #FairUmbrella campaign since 2021. Here, she reviews the options for policy change set out in the recent umbrella company consultation.
Tax-favoured share plans are firmly in the spotlight at the moment. Claire Matthews (Taylor Wessing) reminds us how EMI options work and reviews recent changes.