Following consultation there will be new tax reliefs to encourage and promote indirect employee ownership. This will represent a possible alternative exit route from your business, with full CGT exemption where you pass a controlling interest to your staff via an employee ownership trust from April 2014.
In addition, from October 2014 bonus payments made to employees of indirectly employee owned companies which are controlled by an employee ownership trust will be exempt from income tax up to £3,600 per annum.