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UK share incentives: Budget 2025 and Finance Bill 2026—EMI reforms, PISCES amendments, EOT CGT, NICs on pension salary sacrifice, Takeover Code IPO and dual class changes, remuneration insights

Published on: 04 December 2025

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  • Budgets, Autumn Statements and Finance Bills
  • Tax treatment
  • Company law, governance and regulatory matters
  • Trackers
  • Useful information
  • Dates for your diary
  • Weekly highlights from other practice areas

Budgets, Autumn Statements and Finance Bills

Budget 2025 resolutions passed, and Finance Bill 2026 published

After an unforeseen delay, on 28 November 2025 HMRC issued the Budget 2025 overview of tax legislation and rates (OOTLAR), together with Annex A outlining the 2026–27 tax rates and allowances. The Budget Resolutions were agreed on Tuesday 2 December 2025, and the Finance Bill 2026 followed on Thursday 4 December 2025. As it is the second Finance Bill in the 2024–2026 Parliamentary session, it has been brought forward as the ‘Finance (No 2) Bill’. From a Share Incentives angle, the Bill sets out draft measures addressing increases to EMI thresholds and the exercise period (with certain Northern Ireland companies excluded), PISCES (EMI and CSOP options), and capital gains tax on disposals to EOTs—all of which featured in Share Incentives weekly highlights—27 November 2025—Budgets, Autumn Statements and Finance Bills last week...

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