From 2026 anyone with self employment income or rental income (or a combination of the two) which amounts to over £50,000 a year (this is WELL below the VAT threshold) needs to start submitting quarterly returns to HMRC.
These returns are not fully adjusted like your personal tax return which will still need to be filed, it is a check on whether or not you are preparing quarterly bookkeeping using MTD compatible software.
From 2027 this threshold drops to £30,000 and there is an expectation that it will eventually be £20,000.
This is a huge change for self employed people and landlords who are only really used to having to report figures once a year on their personal tax returns.
If you are not already using software to keep your books up to date during the year, you should start planning for this ASAP.
Many bookkeepers will be able to help you with this - we at BW Bookkeeping are happy to help with these quarterly submissions for our existing bookkeeping clients. We are not personalt tax specialists and we always send our clients to an accountant at the tax year end - but the quarterly returns are based entirely on the regular bookkeeping work and so this is our focus already.
We do monthly bookkeeping for our clients so there will be no great shift in the way we work, the quarterly submissions will simply mean that more questions need to be answered during the year rather than leaving some of them to build up.
If you would like to talk to a bookkeeper about what this change means for you, give us a ring on 07825152951.
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