The Tax Take: seeking a piece of the action

Consultation on employee share options has a whiff of a box-ticking exercise

Can bosses ever start paying staff in stocks? Pic: Pixabay

A piece of the action

Imagine if an employer was able to pay its employees without having to raise cash. Imagine, too, if employees actively sought out this cash-free method of payment, seeing it as a way of accumulating some capital above and beyond what their wages might allow. Employers would be clamouring to make such arrangements.

That’s what’s involved with the granting of equity in the business by an employer to an ...