TRSM23040 - Types of trust that need to be registered: contents: excluded express trusts: contents: employee share scheme trusts

Trusts arising from employee share schemes are, subject to certain conditions, excluded from registration as express trusts (Sch3A(20) and (21) of the ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥ Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017).

The trust must be either:

  • the plan trust of a share incentive plan (SIP) which meets the requirements of Part 9 of Schedule 2 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.
  • A trust created under a share option scheme that meets the requirements of Parts 2 to 7 of Schedule 3 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions Act 2003.

For further information see ETASSUM20000.