This presentation examines tax-qualified regimes for share-based awards in France, Ireland, Israel, the UK and the US. Our panel of experts will discuss the advantages offered by these tax qualified programs for issuers and for employees and offer insights into what factors companies take—or should take—into consideration when deciding to put a tax-qualified program in place in a particular country.

With governments all over the world facing budget crises, their attention has increasingly shifted to ensuring that taxpayers properly report and pay taxes related to their offshore assets to fill the revenue gap. New reporting requirements have also emerged in a number of countries, including India, Israel, Japan, Spain and the United States (FATCA).