TSEM5430 - Trusts for particular purposes: employment-related trusts - Share Incentive Plans - action in Trust Office

Employee Share Scheme Unit

Refer to Employee Share Scheme Unit (ESSU), Room G52 100 Parliament Street

  • share incentive plans involving shares
  • applications for approval

If ESSU approves the Scheme they will send the Trust Office notification, referring you to this instruction.

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Action in Trust Office

When you receive notification from ESSU that a scheme has been approved

  • set the case up in the normal way (TSEM1410).
  • send ESSU, Room G52 100 Parliament Street a note of the reference number..
  • ESSU issue a special return (form 39) for such a plan. But, as this only provides information for that Office, you should note the record for the issue of annual Self-Assessment returns.
  • review returns in the normal way.
  • refer any doubt or dispute on the trustees’ taxation to HMRC Trusts - Head Office Edinburgh.