With only four weeks to go until the rollout of digital tax accounts to all UK individual taxpayers, HMRC's communications strategy is likely to be dominated by online messages and YouTube videos, rather than any direct letters from HMRC.

In the move to a purely digital tax environment for businesses, HMRC has released a YouTube video outlining how digital tax accounts will work when they are introduced for all small to medium sized businesses from April 2018

The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has accused HMRC of an ‘inadequate’ communications strategy which has left most taxpayers in the dark about key upcoming changes to the tax system relating to savings and dividend payments, and criticised plans to move to quarterly online tax updates as part of HMRC's Making Tax Digital strategy

The Treasury select committee is challenging HMRC’s plans for making tax digital (MTD) over concerns that the proposals to make digital tax accounts and quarterly updates mandatory for all businesses will increase, rather than reduce, the administration burden for many companies

In the move to replace self assessment with universal digital tax accounts by 2016, HMRC admits that there will be exceptions for online filers without any access to broadband with plans to allow certain unconnected taxpayers to file by phone, while banks will have to report individual taxpayer's interest payments direct to tax authority, reports Sara White 

The government is to accelerate plans to introduce digital tax accounts with the abolition of self assessment tax returns and a deadline of end 2016 to roll out the new system for all taxpayers in the UK