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PSC register for companies and LLPs—checklist

PSC register for companies and LLPs—checklist This note contains a checklist of the key questions to be considered, and steps to be undertaken, in complying with Part 21A of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) (the people with significant control (PSC) regime), in particular the requirement to keep a register of PSCs and other registrable relevant legal entities (RLEs) (the PSC register). The requirement to report PSC information The PSC regime applies to UK incorporated companies limited by shares or guarantee (including community interest companies), limited liability companies (LLPs), unlimited companies, unregistered companies, UK Societas and (as a result of the Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017, SI 2017/694 (Scottish Regulations)) eligible Scottish partnerships (Scottish limited partnerships and Scottish qualifying general partnerships). These entities are required to update their own registers within 14 days, and to update the information held on the central register at Companies House within a further 14 days (except eligible Scottish partnerships which are not required to keep a PSC...

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Maintaining the PSC register—flowchart

Maintaining the PSC register—flowchart View or print a full size PDF version: The flowchart summarises the main steps for a typical company in identifying people with significant control (PSCs) or relevant legal entities (RLEs) so as to update the company’s PSC register and provide details to the Registrar of Companies in relation to the central register. Note however that eligible Scottish partnerships (which are covered by the PSC regime) are not required to keep a PSC register of their own but are only required to deliver PSC information to Companies House for the central register. One of the corporate forms covered by the PSC regime until the end of the Brexit transition period was the Societas Europaea (SE). However any SE still registered in the UK at the end of transition period automatically converted into a UK Societas. For further details on the conversion of SEs to UK Societas see Practice Note: UK Societas. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023) received

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Establishing a beneficial interest (joint ownership)

Where two or more people together own real property, they hold it under a trust of land. Where property is held on a trust of land, the legal estate and equitable estate are separate. The legal estate must be held by the co-owners as joint tenants. The beneficial interest in the property can, however, be held by the co-owners either as:•joint tenants, or•tenants in commonIf the co-owners are joint tenants, each has an indivisible share in the property, where each owns the whole, rather than an identifiable share of the property. The right of survivorship applies so on the death of one joint tenant, the deceased's interest in the property passes automatically to the other(s).Where the beneficial interest is held as tenants in common, interests can be unequal, and the share of one does not pass to the survivor but is part of the deceased's estate.A tenancy in common may arise on the original transfer or conveyance where there is an express declaration of trust, or where an existing joint...

Funding an employee benefit trust

Funding an employee benefit trust This Practice Note covers the following issues in relation to the funding of an employee benefit trust (EBT): • practical aspects of funding an EBT • financial assistance—the background • financial assistance—the current position • relevance of financial assistance to EBTs • financial assistance—exemptions • the employees’ shares scheme exemption • consequences of non-compliance of the financial assistance provisions • tax implications for close companies which fund EBTs, and • corporation tax relief in respect of EBT funding Practical aspects of funding an EBT When an EBT is first set up, it needs to be provided with initial financing, as a trust cannot exist without initial trust assets. It is common for a nominal amount, for example £100, to be settled on the trustee in order to establish the EBT (for further details, see Practice Note: Setting up an EBT). However, after the EBT has established, other funding can be provided. This may be by way of: • voluntary contribution • loan...

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Distribution agreement—non-exclusive—short form

Distribution agreement—non-exclusive—short form This Agreement is made on [date] Parties 1 [insert name of party] [of OR a company incorporated in England and Wales under number [insert registered number] whose registered office is at] [insert address] (Manufacturer); and 2 [insert name of party] [of OR a company incorporated in England and Wales under number [insert registered number] whose registered office is at] [insert address] (Distributor); each of the Manufacturer and the Distributor being a party and together they are the parties. Background (A) The Manufacturer manufactures [and supplies] the Products. (B) The Distributor has agreed to distribute the Products on a non-exclusive basis in the Territory in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. The parties agree: 1 Definitions 1.1 In this Agreement: Active Sales • has the meaning given in Article 8(7) of VABEO; Affiliate • means any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is in under common control with, another entity where “control” means the beneficial ownership of...

Phantom share option agreement

Phantom share option agreement This AGREEMENT is made on [insert date of execution of the phantom share option agreement] Parties 1 [insert name of company whose shares are relevant to the phantom option] (registered number [insert registered number of company]) whose registered office is at [insert registered address of company] (the Company); and 2 [insert name of option holder] of [insert address of option holder] (the Option Holder) Background (A) The Company has agreed to grant to the Option Holder as at the date of this Agreement a Phantom Option on the terms set out in this Agreement. (B) The Phantom Option provides an entitlement to cash and not shares. 1 Definitions In this Agreement, except where the context otherwise requires, the words and expressions set out below will bear the following meanings, namely: Cash Payment • means the cash sum payable on the exercise of the Phantom Option, which shall be calculated in accordance with clause 6.2; Control • has the meaning given...

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How are charities handled under the PSC regime?

How are charities handled under the PSC regime? The two main categories of entity that should be recorded on a PSC register are registrable individuals with 'significant control' (as defined in accordance with the five conditions set out in Schedule 1A, Part 1 to the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006)), and any other registrable 'relevant legal entities' (RLEs) that have significant control and are 'subject to their own disclosure requirements'. Charities typically establish themselves as either trusts, unincorporated associations, charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs) or companies limited by guarantee. Some of these structures will therefore have to maintain their own PSC register. In addition, if they are themselves legal entities, they are likely to be registrable RLEs which may appear in the PSC register of a particular company or LLP which they happen to have significant control or influence over. Others may not be registrable RLEs but any investigating company or LLP must then trace through these entities until it finds an indirect PSC or RLE (or otherwise determine...

How does the test set out in the fifth condition of the people with significant control (PSC) regime need to be satisfied and how would the findings be recorded in the PSC register?

How does the test set out in the fifth condition of the people with significant control (PSC) regime need to be satisfied and how would the findings be recorded in the PSC register? The fifth people with significant control (PSC) condition (as provided in paragraph 6 of Schedule 1A Part 1 to the Companies Act 2006) states that: • the trustees of a trust or the members of a firm that, under the law by which it is governed, is not a legal person meet any of the other specified conditions (in their capacity as such) in relation to company Y, or would do so if they were individuals, and • X [the potential PSC] has the right to exercise, or actually exercises, significant influence or control over the activities of that trust or firm It is clear from the wording that both limbs above must be satisfied for the fifth condition to identify a PSC [X] with significant influence or control (but noting that first there are...

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Private Client weekly highlights—8 June 2018

This week’s edition of Private Client highlights includes: (1) Tish v Olley on the interpretation of ambiguous Will clauses, (2) Permissibility of in specie pension contributions, (3) the OTS report on simplifying the taxation of savings income, and (4) the FTT’s dismissal of the taxpayer’s appeal in Glyn v HMRC.

UK tax considerations for de-enveloping properties

Tax analysis: What’s behind the latest trend of de-enveloping residential properties? Matthew Braithwaite, partner in the private wealth team at BDB, examines the impact of changes in the UK government’s approach to taxing enveloped properties.