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UK–US employee share awards: tax questions before a move
A share award can stretch across several chapters of your working life. The award, changes to your job and transactions may sit in different folders or employer portals. Bring the timeline together before asking how a move affects it; avoid treating every award as the same kind of payment.
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Your cross-border tax questions.
List each award separately, using the terminology in its plan documents. Mark events already completed and decisions still ahead, including any expiry dates you need to discuss.
- What exactly have I been awarded, and which documents explain it?
- Which dates and working locations will an adviser need to review?
- What should I understand before exercising, selling or changing an election?
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Records for your tax review.
Keep these in your own records. You do not need to send Treaty documents, amounts or personal details.
- Grant letters and plan rules
- Vesting, exercise and sale records
- Employment and working-location timeline
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Download the original plan documents while you still have portal access. Ask for advice about your actual award before taking an irreversible action.
Official tax guidance
Use the tax authorities’ guidance for the period and circumstances you are reviewing. These links are starting points, not an answer about your own position.
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