We focus on delivering practical, high-quality advice to address your employee incentive and reward objectives and employment tax obligations. 

Navigating change and managing risks for employers and their employees

In most organisations, employees are often the key difference between success and failure. But managing the lifecycle of employers’ relationships with their employees is a complex challenge.

At A&M we focus on delivering practical, high-quality advice to address your employee incentive and reward objectives and employment tax obligations. Employers need to attract and retain the right individuals to ensure their businesses are positioned to succeed. Reward is crucial to this: because it frequently overlaps with other corporate issues, it cannot be treated in isolation to the rest of the business.

We advise companies on the design, implementation and ongoing maintenance of reward plans that are aligned to corporate objectives.

Why bring in a specialist advisor?

Although nearly every company has employees, few organisations boast specialised employment tax expertise. Employment tax decisions go far beyond payroll management. Well-executed reward and employment plans can help management teams unlock long-term value. For example, expert advice can help foster better integration across functional siloes like HR, Treasury and Finance.

We provide expert support in a range of different complex situations:

• Creating and implementing equitybased remuneration plans
• Tax efficient equitybased remuneration solutions
• HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) approved plans
• Bespoke arrangements
• Transactions
• Employee Benefit Trusts
• Compliance services and year end reporting
• Corporation tax deductibility of sharebased payments
• Employee communication
• Implications of oneoff liquidity events such as M&A or public listings

We also provide a comprehensive range of advisory services to support companies with their employment tax and NIC obligations and risk areas. These include:

• Reviewing expenses and benefits arrangements
• Advice around non-executive and non-UK resident directors and employees
• Internationally mobile employees, and remote workers
• Engagement and payment of off-payroll labour
• Salary sacrifice arrangements
• Termination payments
• Employment Tax Optimisation (ETO)
• HMRC PAYE/NIC reviews and disclosures 
• Policy, procedure and process documentation
• Construction Industry Scheme advice and related compliance

Why A&M?

Our experienced practitioners offer employers a one-stop service to manage the tax implications of all matters to do with people, reward and employment. With extensive in-house, professional service and institutional experience, we understand the nuances of employment tax affairs intimately.

A&M advises companies through the lifecycle of their employees’ relationships with the organisation. This extends from policies and procedures that affect the whole employee base, through to bespoke reward and incentives plans designed for senior executives. At all times, we focus on developing meaningful partnerships that create long-term results for organisations across sizes and sectors.

Additional Key Contacts:

Anita Eunson, Senior Director          Chris Prout, Senior Director
aenson@alvarezandmarsal.com         cprout@alvarezandmarsal.com

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