Tax | Deadlines for MTD quarterly reporting 2026 to 2028

Key tax filing dates for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax from quarterly reporting updates to year end self assessment tax returns, plus start dates for new lower thresholds

10 Sep 2026

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Tax | Tax filing deadlines: Sep – Jan 2027

Corporation tax filing deadline for accounting periods ended 30 September 2025, second quarterly update for MTD

1 Sep 2026

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Tax | Making Tax Digital is creating one long silly season

The first MTD filing deadline created a headache for overstretched accountants, with new quarterly reporting rules contributing to already rising workloads, warns Louise Walpole, commercial director of Advancetrack

1 Sep 2026

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Tax | 79% of builders and tradespeople not ready for MTD

Wickes rolls out free Xero software to members as low awareness about MTD among tradespeople flagged with only one in five ‘fully prepared’ for quarterly reporting

20 Aug 2026

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Tax | HMRC opens MTD exemption window for £30k taxpayers

Self employed and landlords with income above £30,000 can now apply for an MTD exemption if they qualify as ‘digitally excluded’, HMRC confirms

17 Aug 2026

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Tax | HMRC to ‘automatically sign up’ MTD taxpayers from September

Over 294,000 taxpayers not yet registered for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax warned: ‘We will automatically sign up taxpayers’

12 Aug 2026

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Tax | MTD deadline day: top tips

Arjun Kumar, co-CEO of Taxd, sets outs his seven essential tips for self employed and landlords not yet signed up to MTD for Income Tax and racing to best the midnight deadline

7 Aug 2026

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Tax | EXCLUSIVE: HMRC hits half a million Making Tax Digital sign-ups

Four in 10 taxpayers not signed up for Making Tax Digital

6 Aug 2026

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Tax | Top tips for self-employed and landlords before 7 August MTD deadline

Tax expert Andy Oury, partner at Oury Clark, answers some of the most frequently asked questions and shares advice on potential pitfalls for those hit by £50,000 MTD rules from Friday

3 Aug 2026

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Tax | Tax filing deadlines: Aug – Dec 2026

First mandatory quarterly filing for non-PAYE incomes under MTD for Income Tax, end of 5% summer VAT cut 

3 Aug 2026

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Tax | One week to register for MTD for Income Tax

Self employed and landlords have until 23.59pm next Friday to register for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax

31 Jul 2026

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Tax | 400k need to register for MTD by 7 August filing deadline

Over 400,000 landlords and self employed still not signed up to MTD for Income Tax if have £50,000 qualifying income with first quarterly return deadline only two weeks away

24 Jul 2026

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Tax | Reporting student loans under Making Tax Digital

HMRC has clarified how to report student loans under new Making Tax Digital (MTD) rules for earners with over £50,000 in qualifying income, including buy to let landlords and self employed, from August

23 Jul 2026

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Tax | 7.2m paid higher rate tax this year with number up by 16%

Frozen thresholds are carving out income with nearly 700,000 extra higher rate taxpayers in a single tax year, while top rate payers set to pass one million mark, offficial figures from HMRC show

15 Jul 2026

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Tax | First quarter MTD period ends with four weeks to live reporting

With less than 30 days until the first HMRC quarterly reporting deadline for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax, affected taxpayers are being advised to sign up as soon as possible

7 Jul 2026

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