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UK share schemes: Budget 2025 halves EOT CGT relief, expands EMI and 15-year exercise; PISCES amendments; AIM Rule 13 change; ISS updates; Debenhams growth plan; HMRC SAYE guidance

Published on: 27 November 2025

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Budgets, Autumn Statements and Finance Bills

Budget 2025

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, presented the government’s Budget on 26 November 2025. From a Share Incentives standpoint, the key update was:

  • Employee ownership trusts: with immediate effect for disposals on or after 26 November 2025, capital gains tax (CGT) relief on qualifying transfers of shares to the trustees of an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) falls from a 100% exemption to 50%. Draft legislation has been released for inclusion in Finance Bill 2025–26. Section 236H of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 will be amended so that, where the disposal relief conditions are satisfied, 50% of the gain is treated as a chargeable gain of the disposing shareholder for CGT. Business Asset Disposal Relief and Investors’ Relief will not be available for the disposal. The other 50% of the gain on disposal will not constitute a chargeable gain for the disposing shareholder...

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