2018 was a year of uncertainty and I don’t even have to mention the ‘B’ word. Brexit. if you need to ask. Businesses were forced into looking for compliant digital software for Making Tax Digital for VAT reporting, even though many leading software packages had yet to be listed as compliant by HMRC.

Many accountants and businesses were left asking whether their existing software would be compliant or not.

This affected not only businesses who had had never used software but also those already in the digital age, and it was exacerbated for those whose year-end did not fit neatly with the end of paper records on 31 March 2019.