What would hmrc do in this scenario:
A new start-up company we will call TheCompany, Grant's emi share options to employee(me) with an exercise price of 10p.
EMI agreement gets signed by employee on the 1st of January before the deadline or they lose their shares.
TheCompany submits their first val231 to hmrc on 1st of February with AMV of 50p and UMV of 60p and is subsequently approved by hmrc.
TheCompany then submits the employees emi agreement to hmrc for the first time with exercise price of 10p.
Thank you in advance.
Edited to add: val231 was approved by hmrc.
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David Ex wrote:
https://www.gov.uk/tax-employee-share-schemes/enterprise-management-ince...
I have been all over that page. Dont take this the wrong way but if I could understand what I was looking for on that page and what it was saying I wouldn't be here asking for help trying to figure out what would happen in my scenario.
Regards,
Bert
Right. In that case, you need paid for advice.
HMRC will probably expect the company or the employee to pay any taxes or benefit in kind that may fall due as a result. What are you expecting them to do?
Dave
Don't worry, Sift (the site owners) don't understand the purpose of this forum either.
There's no requirement for your exercise price to match AMV or UMV. HMRC won't do anything. Not really sure what you mean. Your employer needs to file whatever returns your employer needs to file. On exercise, if you exercise, you'll be taxed on the difference between the values.
Your employer really ought to be able to answer all your questions about the scheme, or know an accountant (that helped them implement the scheme) who can.
I guess your reluctance to speak to them may depend on the nature of the suspected shenanigans.
But forewarned .. and all that. It's usually better to know about any problem before it happens rather than adopting the ostrich strategy!
Exercise price can be anything you like. Higher than an agreed HMRC valuation, lower or the same. It's the tax outcomes that differ.
If the exercise price is below the agreed HMRC valuation, the difference is an income tax matter and not CGT.
Until you know what you are entitled to/what you are going to get (i.e. until you have gone down your legal process), there's not a lot to discuss in here.
HMRC may be interested in the apparent failure to pay NMW/NLW.
Sorry to come back to this. I found out some new information hopefuly someone can clear up.
Turns out that the signed emi agreement was never submitted to hmrc and was well overdue for filing with hmrc by 1 and a half months
I have then been made aware that the emi scheme was never even setup with hmrc to begin with.
Where would I stand with this emi agreement. I think they become unapproved but the emi agreement has all emi legislation and rules and company are going along with the "options have lapsed" line and no longer being an employee to deny me what I worked for.
I'll come clean. I'm taking a former employer to court over working for a year for free to get shares in company then made to sign an emi agreement believing it to be shares not options (you can see I dont have a clue) I'm finding irregularities with the whole emi thing after now knowing what they actually are but still struggling to understand what they have done. It looks like trying to avoid tax by issuing shares under the emi without employee knowledge but screwed it up so badly. A lot of us had these agreements signed and were working while they had not been submitted and the emi scheme having not even been registered and still wasnt done when we got fired.
I've been getting legal advice on this but I'm still trying to find out information for my own benefit and speed things along
Legal advice from where? A forum? Or paying for it?
Im just interested in the fact that you are prepared to pay for legal advice, but not for Accountancy/Tax advise?