Without knowing the exact details of the plan it’s hard to say…
Personally I have two different types of plans with my workplace..
One that is paid post-tax that has a maturity period and offered at a fixed discount with 33% off the year average. if the shares drop below the fixed time at any point before maturity, I can get my money back and not take up the shares option. Once one maturities, I plan to sell the shares and reinvest it in the s&p500 tracker or something similar… so I don’t have too many eggs in the same basket.
I start a new one of those every year and can get to see the benefits every year after the first three years..
The other is pre-tax and it’s continuous where any share I buy is doubled but I don’t get the matching shares for another 3 years. If I sell the shares before 3 years I don’t get the matching shares and I have to pay tax on the initial amount I used to buy the shares.. so I’m basically locked into them for 3 year to get the matching shares, I need to hold on to those for an additional 2 years for them to become tax free..
my plan is to sell off the shares that I purchased after 5 years when the market is favourable and in chucks (I buy the shares monthly).
So this is a 5 year cycle before I can start seeing the benefits.. but again once I sell them I’m planning to reinvest the money in to a board market tracker.
Mines not too bad, my nephew in law has shares locked away for 10 years, but he works for a privately owned firm… talk about golden handcuffs thou lol
Once every quarter I can buy shares, all fees covered, the company will also contribute over the year, 2k euros max.
I just buy the whole lot at once, so around 3333euros and that gives me the 60% 2k euro contribution.
I pay tax then, on their contribution and no tax later when I sell. Selling fees also covered.
It's locked for 5 years.
I have about 9k euro of liquid assets I can draw out, some is still locked.
I was playing with some maths earlier and if I take 3333k euro out and put back in, the share price will reset (5 years ago they were cheaper than now) so my unit quantity I will have, will be lower, thus as the share price grows, I won't make as much. Answered my own question.
It would have to grow quite a lot to make a huge difference.
Currently they are 200euros a share, my first I bought were around 118euros I think.
When I started around 2008, they were around 8euros....wish I started then! Lol.
I would be leading a much different life haha, hindsight hey........