BIM44035 - Measuring the profits (specific rules & practices) - receipts & deductions: specific deductions - employee share schemes: costs of providing shares to employees - layout of guidance

Deductions for the employer’s ‘costs’ of providing shares to employees differ depending on which of the ways set out in BIM44040 is used.

Deductions also differ depending on whether the shares are provided:

  • during accounting periods starting before 1 January 2003, or
  • during accounting periods starting on or after 1 January 2003.

Guidance on deductions for providing shares to employees in the following circumstances is at:

Accounting periods starting before 1 January 2003

BIM44040 Contributions to employee share ownership trusts - introduction
BIM44045 Contributions to SIP trusts
BIM44060 Contributions to APS trusts
BIM44065 Contributions to QUESTs
BIM44140 Contributions to other (‘case law’) employee trusts
BIM44225 Intra-group recharges
BIM44230 Intra-group recharges and transfer pricing
BIM44240 New shares issued direct to employees

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Accounting periods starting on or after 1 January 2003

BIM44250 Introduction
BIM44255 Providing shares under SIP schemes
BIM44260 Providing ‘qualifying shares’ under FA03/SCH23 
BIM44450 Providing ‘non-qualifying’ shares