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Guides for MTD landlords
Plain-English help with Making Tax Digital. No jargon, no filler.
Airbnb Hosts and MTD: Are You Caught, and When?
If you let on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com, here's how the MTD income test works, when you're phased in, and why one busy listing can catch you.
Read more →Airbnb Income Tax for UK Hosts: What to Declare Under the New Rules
What Airbnb now tells HMRC every January, why gross income (not payouts) is what you declare, and how to match your records with confidence.
Read more →Two or Three Properties? Handling MTD Quarterly Updates Solo
A practical, plain-English guide for small landlords on managing MTD quarterly updates across a few properties — with a worked example — without an accountant.
Read more →MTD for One Rental Property: A Beginner's Walkthrough
New to Making Tax Digital and own one rental? Here's a calm, plain-English walkthrough with real pound figures — and what actually changes for you.
Read more →Self-Employed and a Landlord? How MTD Treats Mixed Income
If you run a business and let out property, here's how Making Tax Digital adds your income together — with a clear worked example in pounds.
Read more →Cumulative Quarterly Updates: A Worked Example for Landlords
What 'cumulative' really means under MTD, shown step by step with one landlord's quarterly figures across a full tax year — in plain English and pounds.
Read more →Goodbye Self Assessment: Meet Your Final Declaration
Wondering what happens to your old tax return under MTD? Here's how the final declaration works for landlords and why it's nothing to fear.
Read more →Spreadsheet to Digital Records: What Stays the Same
Worried about moving off your trusty spreadsheet for MTD? Here's what genuinely changes, what stays comfortingly familiar, and why it's easier than you think.
Read more →Your MTD Calendar: Key Dates Every Landlord Should Diarise
A friendly run-through of the Making Tax Digital dates that matter — when you join, the four quarterly deadlines, and how to never miss one.
Read more →Jointly Owned Rental? Here's How to Split It Under MTD
Own a rental with your spouse or a co-owner? Here's how Making Tax Digital works when a property is shared — explained in plain English.
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