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UK share incentives: 2025 AGM pay scrutiny under new guidance, PISCES Practice Note, Scottish Budget delay, and FTT holds avoidance-scheme payments taxable

Published on: 09 October 2025

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ISS-Corporate reviews UK 2025 AGM season amid new remuneration guidance

ISS-Corporate, part of Institutional Shareholder Services, has issued its analysis of the 2025 AGM season across the UK and Ireland, noting heightened scrutiny of executive remuneration. This shift is influenced in part by the Investment Association’s updated Principles of Remuneration (October 2024) and the latest Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) Corporate Governance Code, which now advises submitting the annual remuneration report to an advisory shareholder vote.

Key observations included:

  • Across the FTSE 350, remuneration policies continued to attract robust shareholder backing (with no policy failures in five years); nevertheless, three remuneration reports were rejected in 2025 due to concerns about unjustified salary uplifts, poor pay–performance alignment, and inappropriate application of discretion
  • For AIM companies, uptake of the QCA’s recommendations has so far been limited, with only 32 companies bringing remuneration policies in 2025, all of which passed with minimal dissent...

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