mandelbrot
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Straightforward enough question, but I can't find anything definitive either way from my initial searching... as the title says I'm wondering whether Proprietary Directors are entitled to:
1. Statutory redundancy?
2. Exemption (and increased basic exemption, SCSB, and Top Slicing Relief!) for tax purposes, on the ex gratia element of a payment.
All of the information I can see simply says there must be an insurable employment - so I suppose a relevant question is whether a Class S directorship is an insurable employment?
I'm looking at a situation where a 50% shareholder in a husband / wife company (which has shrunk substantially in size in the recession, and now employing a fraction of the staff it used to), wants to leave the business. They would resign as a director, transfer their shares to the other spouse (not that it is necessarily relevant), and no longer receive any remuneration from the company, nor would their role be filled...
I'm dubious about it as it would potentially be open to all sorts of mischief, the above being a prime example really, since the amount drawn by the other spouse will probably just be increased...
Has anyone any direct experience of this?
1. Statutory redundancy?
2. Exemption (and increased basic exemption, SCSB, and Top Slicing Relief!) for tax purposes, on the ex gratia element of a payment.
All of the information I can see simply says there must be an insurable employment - so I suppose a relevant question is whether a Class S directorship is an insurable employment?
I'm looking at a situation where a 50% shareholder in a husband / wife company (which has shrunk substantially in size in the recession, and now employing a fraction of the staff it used to), wants to leave the business. They would resign as a director, transfer their shares to the other spouse (not that it is necessarily relevant), and no longer receive any remuneration from the company, nor would their role be filled...
I'm dubious about it as it would potentially be open to all sorts of mischief, the above being a prime example really, since the amount drawn by the other spouse will probably just be increased...
Has anyone any direct experience of this?