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UK share incentives: Budget 26 November 2025; MLRs/TRS reforms with de minimis for new trusts; FTT Lexgreen; EMI pitfalls; key dates

Published on: 04 September 2025

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  • Budgets, Autumn Statements and Finance Bills
  • Employee benefit trusts
  • Useful information
  • Dates for your diary
  • Weekly highlights from other practice areas

Budgets, Autumn Statements and Finance Bills

Budget date confirmed for 26 November 2025

Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced that the Budget will be held on Wednesday 26 November 2025. For details, see House of Commons Written Statement HCWS902. 3 September 2025

Employee benefit trusts

HM Treasury publishes policy note and draft regulations on reforming the Money Laundering regime

HM Treasury (HMT) has issued a policy note outlining proposed changes to the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (MLRs 2017), SI 2017/692, alongside the draft Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 2025. The proposals set out targeted updates to the MLRs 2017, SI 2017/692 across several areas, aiming to plug regulatory gaps, respond to emerging risks, and reform trust registration for the Trust Registration Service (TRS)

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