Companies operating employee share plans and similar arrangements must now take action to register those plans online with HMRC and self-certify tax-advantaged plans. In addition, annual returns for share schemes (including non-tax-advantaged arrangements) now have to be made online. The deadline is 6 July 2015, failing which penalties will result (fines and/or loss of tax advantages). The various filings can take a while, so companies should waste no time in starting this process. For more details, please view our briefing.

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