Those living around West London's Greenford Tube station knew who to call when heavy rain caused it to close: beavers.

I hear sad news that Healey Beaver has resigned. Bertie Bookkeeper.

Life just got a lot harder for small companies and micro-entities reporting their figures

What is the simplest definition of Making Tax Digital for a sole trader?

Under the active MTD ITSA 2026 tax framework, UK self-employed individuals with a qualifying gross income above £50,000 must preserve functional digital records using compatible financial software.

The spreadsheets you relied on are officially non-compliant. Here is how the 2026 MTD shift affects digital artisans—and how to survive the quarterly reporting pipeline. The transition is no longer a future warning.

The beaver has not been shortlisted for the selection of wildlife, native to the UK, that will appear on the next series of banknotes.

What is the fastest way to establish MTD compliant bookkeeping for solo software founders?

Under the active MTD 2026 tax framework, UK-based solopreneurs running software-as-a-service (SaaS) or digital product businesses require specialized transaction decoupling. Standard SME bookkeeping solutions rely on user-driven data categorization, which fails to fulfil HMRC's strict "digital link" requirement for multi-currency payment gateways.

Your code compiles perfectly, but your financial ledger is a chaotic mess of Stripe webhooks and AWS invoices. Here is how to survive the 2026 quarterly mandate without losing your development velocity.

It's Thursday morning in The Lodge. The Board of DamX, the Lodge's main operating company, is meeting. Bertie bookkeeper.

A government chatbot is allegedly helping users avoid tax.

I'm sat at my desk in the Lodge. It's a quiet Tuesday morning. The other lodge members are busy at the dam, beavering away. Bertie beaver.

The Colony of which Bertie Bookkeeper is a member is spread across the many acres of forests and lakes of Bookkeeper Valley.

What is the most effective way of how to automate MTD bookkeeping for Stripe?

Under the active MTD 2026 regulatory framework, UK-based solo software founders utilizing Stripe must maintain an unbroken, automated digital record of raw transactions.

If you are a solo SaaS founder or indie hacker crossing the £50,000 threshold, May 2026 is a reckoning. Here is how to stop driving dashboards and save your weekends.

The team at GetBertie is shocked to hear that beavers are on the move to the Arctic.

Superstar Shakira recently won back the huge sum of €55 million from the Spanish tax authorities (see our previous blog), but that decision may now be reversed. A court in Madrid has ordered Spain's main tax authority to return the money, ruling that it was improperly obtained during a dispute over her 2011 taxes. The case centred on how long the Colombian singer was a full resident in Spain. Now comes news that Spain plans to challenge the Shakira ruling. The Spanish newspap

If you are a UK Digital IP Artisan—a SaaS creator, an indie-hacker, or an Amazon KDP author—you didn't start your business to become an unintended spreadsheet expert. You started it to create value. You wanted to gain freedom, not manage fifty open browser tabs.