Welcome to the April 2025 Share | Updates! We’re sharing the recent tax and legal changes, to help you stay compliant!This edition takes you through recent changes in Canada, Czech Republic, France, India, Isle of Man, Japan, Norway, Panama, Poland and UK. We also have some proposed changes in Cyprus and Singapore. Let’s explore it! Canada Confirmation of u-turn on CGT … Read More
Welcome to the March 2025 Share | Updates! This edition takes you through recent changes in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kenya and UK, while highlighting expected amendments in Australia, Belgium, India, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Slovenia. These alerts provide a clear and up-to-date snapshot of shifting landscapes that could influence your employee share plans strategies. … Read More
Welcome to the February 2025 edition of Share | Updates! In this issue, we’ll be covering some of the latest tax and legal changes in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Norway, Spain and USA. Argentina Changes to Social Security thresholdThe Social Security cap will now be updated monthly, rather than quarterly. Employee Social Security is payable at … Read More
Welcome to the January 2025 edition of Share | Updates! In this issue, we highlight changes for Czech Republic, Ireland, Canada and Slovenia, along with expert insights to help you adapt and ensure compliance in the year ahead. Czech Republic Tax deferral from exercise to saleIn 2024, the Czech Republic introduced new tax rules deferring taxation on employee shares from the … Read More
New series on LinkedIn Each week on LinkedIn, we’ll feature a different country, offering our global community in-depth insights on equity benefits including key issues, tax rates, and unique features. Learn how to strategically structure plans, navigate tax implications, and tackle the regulatory landscape for global employee share plans. We’ll delve into a new jurisdiction … Read More
ProShare 2023 Conference, London It was great to attend the 2023 ProShare Conference again this year. The event is always well-run and stimulating, and the main theme this year – Time for Change – provoked some great discussions about the share plans industry. The PlenaryThe conference looked at tax advantage plans and the 15 changes … Read More
Equity compliance for global employees is usually considered to be complex and expensive. Here, we give some useful tips as to how to get your approach right, and your costs low.1) Believe you can do it!Too many companies assume it is too difficult, and do not extend their equity to their international employees. Often, they … Read More
ShareReporter attended one of the most important events in the global equity sector recently. The Global Equity Organization is the world’s leading body for professionals working in the field of international share plans, and their Pan European Regional Event brought together industry experts from throughout Europe and beyond. ShareReporter’s CEO, Mike Pewton, spoke on the … Read More
Start-Ups and Share Plans – what you need to knowWe love working with start-ups, and our compliance solutions are ideal for companies that have distributed teams, are fast-growing and want stock plan information that is clear, great value and gets the job done. We also have the support of the legal team at CMS to … Read More
At state level, the USA is quite complex for share plans, but most of the states have exemptions for employee share plans. Each state has its own securities laws and regulations (commonly referred to as “Blue Sky Laws”). Companies must comply with the registration or exemption requirements of each state in which plan participants are … Read More