HMRC's latest Employment-Related Securities Bulletin focusses on the impact of COVID-19 on employee share and incentive schemes. Here is our enhanced version.

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The government has been tweaking many of its Coronavirus support grants, funds and other measures in the last week. It is worth having a read through our Government Support Tracker for recent updates and additions. My highlights of the latest news are as follows:

A Discretionary Grant Fund is available for small and micro-businesses that are adversely affected by the Coronavirus and are not eligible for other grant schemes.

The government has opened a new consultation ‘Taxation of Coronavirus (COVID-19) support payments’ on draft legislation which includes measures to tax the grants available, recover payments from businesses not entitled to them and penalise deliberate non-compliance.  

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We are covering quite a variety of topics featuring 'the home' this week and we continue to update the COVID-19 support tracker.