Earn over £50,000 as a sole trader or landlord, and not yet signed up for Making Tax Digital (MTD)?

Making Tax Digital (MTD), described as the biggest reform of the UK tax regime in a generation, has flopped.

Did you file in time? Did you make the first Making Tax Digital (MTD) deadline?

Beavers are proving beneficial in so many ways, especially to sufferers of dementia.

Don't forget that one week tomorrow is the first major Making Tax Digital deadline (MTD).

Beaver populations, 1900 compared to 2021. After centuries of intensive hunting for their fur, meat and castoreum, as well as widespread wetland destruction, fewer than 2,000 Eurasian beavers remained.

Landlords face losing £1.5 billion in business revenue in the first year of Making Tax Digital (MTD).

More UK businesses are to be selected for VAT compliance checks over the next two years. HMRC is issuing letters to an increasing number of businesses telling them it's likely they will be reviewed.

A great beaver escapee, nicknamed Steve McQueen by his keepers after his numerous breakouts from his enclosure at Wallington in Northumberland, has found his soulmate.

Of the 864,000 qualifying taxpayers who are required to comply with the new Making Tax Digital (MTD) rules, over half-a-million have yet to sign up.

A top tax expert has sounded an urgent warning about AI and HMRC.

Keir Beaver will resign. He will be gone by the autumn, or maybe sooner.

For the first time, busy beavers have been spotted at a nature reserve in Hampshire. Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve, near Ringwood, is the lucky location.

The 2026 rollout of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (ITSA) marks the end of retrospective accounting. For indie hackers, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors, and platform-native digital artisans, the core challenge of signing up for making tax digital isn't administrative registration—it’s infrastructural.

For sole traders and landlords with an annual qualifying income over £50,000, Making Tax Digital (MTD) became mandatory on 6 April 2026. The absolute deadline to submit your first digital quarterly update to HMRC is 7 August 2026.

If you are a UK sole trader, freelancer, or digital creator, the way you interact with HMRC has fundamentally changed. As of April 2026, the first phase of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD for ITSA) is officially live.

The Whitehall Lodge did it. They banned SmartLogs for our young beavers.

When it comes to filing your accounts to both the HMRC and Companies House, things have changed.

Now all beavers in this vast region will be able to use Bookkeeper Strait, a key waterway for the transport of logs.

A letter in The Guardian has highlighted the sense of doom and despondency coming from the UK small business sector.