Disguised remuneration: is there still a future for employee benefit trusts? | Practical Law

Disguised remuneration: is there still a future for employee benefit trusts? | Practical Law

Employee benefit trusts are increasingly used as tax avoidance vehicles. This has prompted the proposal of tough new tax legislation to counteract “disguised remuneration” arrangements using employee benefit trusts and other intermediaries, which is due to come into force on 6 April 2011.

Disguised remuneration: is there still a future for employee benefit trusts?

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Disguised remuneration: is there still a future for employee benefit trusts?

by Nicholas Stretch and Isabel Pooley, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Published on 24 Feb 2011 • United Kingdom
Employee benefit trusts are increasingly used as tax avoidance vehicles. This has prompted the proposal of tough new tax legislation to counteract “disguised remuneration” arrangements using employee benefit trusts and other intermediaries, which is due to come into force on 6 April 2011.