Making Tax Digital is turning accidental landlords into active property businesses.

MTD is turning landlords from once‑a‑year filers into real‑time property businesses.

Making Tax Digital is reshaping how landlords and agents work together, with digital records and reporting from April 2026.

How will Making Tax Digital for Income Tax affect the way landlords and sole traders record their income?

From April 2026, landlords and sole traders will need to join Making Tax Digital. What do they need to know?

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is a reporting process set to be implemented by HMRC from April 2026

Businesses and landlords will be enrolled into keeping digital accounting records and will have to file quarterly figures with HMRC.

HMRC is checking compliance with Making Tax Digital for VAT, and officers are increasingly likely to apply penalties for failure to comply.

Since 1 April 2019, ‘Making Tax Digital’ is live for most VAT registered businesses.

Self-employed individuals and landlords with income over £50,000 have been given a further two years to prepare for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.