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Employee Incentives Update | September 2022

This edition reports on the UK chancellor's improvements to the tax-advantaged company share option plan and other recent developments
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Restricted securities | Updated guidance on section 431 elections

Under the restricted securities regime, an employee and employer can elect to accelerate the taxation of a restricted share (using
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Belgium | Reimbursement of employer's own expenses: extended reporting obligation

In Belgium, from the tax year 2023 (applicable to revenues earned in 2022), employers will be required to report the
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Incentives | Suspension of vesting or reducing awards

Incentive awards such as employee share options are often subject to time-based vesting, so that they "vest" over a specified
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Company share option plan | Expansion and increase in limits

The chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, has announced in the Growth Plan 2022 that the government is supporting companies to attract talent
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Emergency fiscal event announces a package of tax cutting measures

The fiscal event marks a major shift in tax policy with cuts replacing rises in an attempt to drive growth

Chancellor axes IR35 reforms: staffing company and end-user liability to be removed from April

Will there be a rush of UK contractors back to tax-efficient PSC contracting models?
Corporate

Corporate deadlock and liquidation of companies in Spain

Two recent cases examine whether, given the impossibility to liquidate a company due to a corporate deadlock, a court can

Dispute resolution

New European regulation on evidence taking in civil and commercial matters comes into force

On 1 July 2022, Regulation (EU) 2020/1783 on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of

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Spain reforms its tax on fluorinated greenhouse gases

The tax aims to reduce emissions and is levied on persons engaged in the manufacture, importation, intra-Community acquisition or unlawful