BIM44035 - 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

BIM44040Costs of providing sharesContributions to employee share ownership trusts - introduction
BIM44045Costs of providing sharesContributions to SIP trusts
BIM44060Costs of providing sharesContributions to APS trusts
BIM44065Costs of providing sharesContributions to QUESTs
BIM44140Costs of providing sharesContributions to other (‘case law’) employee trusts
BIM44225Costs of providing sharesIntra-group recharges
BIM44230Costs of providing sharesIntra-group recharges and transfer pricing
BIM44240Costs of providing sharesNew shares issued direct to employees

Accounting periods starting on or after 1 January 2003

BIM44250Costs of providing shares to employeesIntroduction
BIM44255Costs of providing sharesProviding shares under SIP schemes
BIM44260Costs of providing sharesProviding ‘qualifying shares’ under FA03/SCH23
BIM44450Costs of providing sharesProviding “non-qualifying” shares