Making Tax Digital for income tax
When it comes to meeting your needs for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, we’ve got three clear packages that we think will work for most business owners.
Making Tax Digital
Self Employed
Making Tax Digital (MTD) for income tax started in April 2026 for sole traders and landlords with slef-employment and property income of £50,000 or more.
Those who filed their self-assessment tax return by January 2026 and meet the £50,000 plus income threshold should have received mandation letters in February or March 2026.
From April 2027, those with income above £30,000 will need to start using Making Tax Digital for income tax and those with income above £20,000 must start by April 2028.
Making Tax Digital for income tax services for sole traders – our packages
To help you prepare and transistion to Making Tax Digital for income tax, we have prepared three packages, which we have detailed below. Please contact us if your needs don’t fit into one of these packages as we may be able to design a personalised package for you.
| Go solo | Check & file | Full service | |
| Ideal for those that are comfortable with their tech and responsibilities. | Stay in control of your bookkeeping but we’re there alongside you. | Perfect for those who want to focus on their business and opt for end-to-end support. | |
| Registration for MTD for income tax | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access to receipt scanning software | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access to bookkeeping software | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ability to create beautiful sales invoices | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Record your costs and purchase invoices | Your responsibility | Your responsibility | ✓ |
| Match sales and costs against the bank | Your responsibility | Your responsibility | ✓ |
| Check and file MTD for income tax quarterly updates | Your responsibility | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dedicated expert accountant to answer your queries and provide you with support | ✓ (Year-end only) |
✓ (Quarterly) |
✓ (All year round) |
| Preparation of your year-end accounts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Computation of your year end tax liability and due dates for tax payments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Optional add-ons
- Tailoring the software to suit your needs, bank feeds added and a 45 minute training session
- Opening balances set up for you on the software, such as bank balances, fixed assets, loans, customers and suppliers
- Changing your VAT period end
- VAT return submission
- Software migration
- Catch-up bookkeeping
- Bookkeeping clean-up
Landlords
For information about the packages we have available for landlords, please click here.
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