{"id":9959,"date":"2025-10-03T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:42:39","slug":"making-tax-digital-guide-income-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/making-tax-digital-guide-income-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Free e-book: Your guide to Making Tax Digital for Income Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFree e-book: Your guide to Making Tax Digital for Income Tax\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGet our free guide on Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. Learn what\u2019s required, and much more.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax is the biggest tax personal tax shake-up in a generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply, it legally requires many sole traders<\/a> and landlords<\/a> to use software for their accounting relating to income tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those using an ad hoc solution of paper-based notes or spreadsheets for accounting, this is sure to come as quite a shock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And millions of individuals across the UK fall within the scope of Making Tax Digital<\/a> for Income Tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there’s no need to panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our free e-book, Your guide to Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, <\/strong>provides everything you need to know, and reveals how to adapt your business so it will thrive in the era of MTD for Income Tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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E-Book: Your Guide to MTD for Income Tax<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet Your Guide to MTD for Income Tax<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\"A\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

It covers the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Does MTD for Income Tax apply to you? We explain and offer support so you can start following its rules right now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Find out what MTD for Income Tax requires and how your tax accounting might change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • What you need to do to sign up, if you haven’t already.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Master what’s required for your quarterly updates and digital tax returns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • See a two-year timeline with key dates of when you must provide vital information to HMRC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Discover when and how you’ll need to pay your tax following MTD for Income Tax’s introduction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Find out if spreadsheets can be used for MTD for Income Tax accounting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    MTD for Income Tax started in April 2026 for those with gross income over \u00a350,000. If you’re not following the rules, you could face penalties from HMRC. For those with gross income over \u00a330,000 it starts in April 2027, and for those with gross income over \u00a320,000, it starts in April 2028. Our guide is good for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    By using the guide, you’ll see where the areas to make changes are in your business and its processes, and learn what you should do to be compliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Your business will thank you for it. Making Tax Digital really does make business admin much simpler. So why not embrace it sooner rather than later?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Our free guide is written by experts and is all you need as a sole trader or landlord to understand what MTD means for your business\u2014and how to ensure you’re ready in time.<\/p>\n

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    Get our free guide on Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. Learn what\u2019s required, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":11524,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sage_video":false,"post_featured_image_hide":false,"sage_hide_published_date":false,"sage_hide_read_time":false,"sage_hide_share_buttons":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,6],"tags":[23,30,206,27,28],"business_type":[4],"lilypad":[],"context":[],"industry":[],"persona":[73,74,75],"imagine_tag":[142,334,727,109],"coauthors":[369],"class_list":["post-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-guides-templates","category-money-matters","tag-bookkeeping","tag-mtd-business","tag-need-to-know","tag-tax","tag-vat","business_type-small-business"],"sage_meta":{"region":"en-gb","author_name":"Keir Thomas-Bryant","featured_image":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-616244805.jpg","imagine_tags":{"142":"Making Tax Digital for businesses","334":"Making tax digital for income tax","727":"Self Assessment and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax","109":"Small business"}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Sage Advice UK","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29848,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/29848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/11524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"business_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/business_type?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"lilypad","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/lilypad?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"context","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/context?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"imagine_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/imagine_tag?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}