Growing malaise in the all-employee share schemes sector is disguised by SMEs adopting options-based Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI), new HMRC statistics reveal. While the overall number of companies operating tax-advantaged employee share schemes rose by six percent to 15,340 in the tax year ended April 2020, a record 13,970 of […]
Articles by: Juliet Wigzell
Centre responds to EMI: Call for Evidence
The Esop Centre responded to the Treasury’s Call for Evidence, on whether and how more UK companies should be able to access share options based Enterprise Management Incentive to help them recruit and retain the talent they need to scale up, urging chancellor Rishi Sunak to reboot EMI by tearing […]
Esop Centre Share Plans Symposium, 23-25 March 2021
More than 70 people, including a large number of share plan sponsor companies, registered for the Centre’s twice pandemic postponed Fourth British Isles Share Plans Symposium, which was held online over three days in late March. Each day’s webclave featured a specific theme, successively: All–employee share plans & regulation; Executive […]
Newspad All-Employee Share Plan Awards 2020 – WINNERS
Esop Centre judges praised an impressive widespread group of winners, both old and new, in the 2020 edition of the Newspad Awards for the best employee share schemes of the year. A stand-out winner in this edition was the Daily Mail and General Trustfor its Share Purchase+ and Salary Substitution […]
Chancellor Urged Not To Punish Employee Shareholders
The Esop Centre urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to punish employee shareholders in his March Budget by slashing the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) exemption allowance and raising charge bands towards Income Tax levels. A letter, supported by many Centre practitioners (plan advisers), is now on the Chancellor’s desk, setting out […]
Louise Drake
Louise Drake is the national sales manager at YBS Share Plans. In what ways does employee share ownership serve a useful purpose? The great thing about employee share ownership is that it can be designed for so many different uses, every company is different and so is each employee. The […]
Brian Basham
Brian Basham is chairman of corporate research company Equity Development and famed City campaigner. Former Times journalist and “still a journalist at heart” Brian was one of the leading players in the great era of contested takeovers and is now also a leading campaigner for corporate and other good causes. […]
Justin Cooper
Justin Cooper Justin Cooper was with Capita, later Link Market Services (formerly Capita Asset Services), for nearly two decades. In May Justin retired as ceo, and is now studying for a Financial Times non-executive director diploma. He was a staunch ally of the Centre nationally and internationally. In what ways […]