Who Needs to Follow Making Tax Digital Rules 2026
So — who needs to follow Making Tax Digital rules? If you’re self-employed, a landlord, or run any VAT-registered business in the UK, the short answer is: probably you, sooner than you think. Making Tax Digital (MTD) is HMRC’s push to digitalise the entire UK tax system. The deadlines are real, the penalties are real, […]
Making Tax Digital for Landlords Explained 2026
By the team at Ask Accountants UK Ltd · Updated April 2026 · 10 min read The government’s MTD programme has been rolling out in stages for years now, having already transformed how VAT-registered businesses handle their returns (if you want to understand how that played out, our piece on Making Tax Digital for VAT covers the full picture). […]
How to Register for Self Assessment with HMRC 2026
Let’s be honest — nobody wakes up on a Monday morning thinking “brilliant, today I’ll register for Self Assessment with HMRC.” Most people only start thinking about it once a business contact mentions it, a panicked WhatsApp lands from a friend who just got an HMRC penalty, or a confusing brown envelope drops through the […]
HMRC Inheritance Tax Reference Number Explained
Published by Ask Accountants UK Ltd | Inheritance Tax Guides Death, as they say, is certain. So, unfortunately, is the paperwork that follows it. If you’re currently dealing with the estate of someone who has died, you’ve likely encountered a requirement that stops many executors cold: before you can pay inheritance tax, you need an […]
How to Fill in IHT400: Step-by-Step Guide for Executors 2026
Nobody sits down one Tuesday morning and thinks, “Today I’ll become an expert in inheritance tax forms.” Yet here you are — probably recently bereaved, probably confused, and almost certainly staring at a 16-page HMRC document wondering how something this important can also be this bewildering. The IHT400 is the main inheritance tax return in […]
Is Cloud Accounting Safe? What Business Owners Need to Know
There’s a moment — and most business owners know exactly the one — where you’re staring at a shoebox of receipts at midnight, wondering how it all got so chaotic. Then someone mentions cloud accounting, and your first instinct isn’t excitement. It’s suspicion. Is cloud accounting safe? It’s the right question to ask. And the fact […]
QuickBooks for Landlords UK: Is It the Right Tool?
Every landlord I’ve ever spoken to has the same story. It starts with one property, one set of keys, and the optimistic belief that it’ll “basically manage itself.” Fast-forward eighteen months: there are repair receipts stuffed inside an old envelope, a spreadsheet held together with crossed fingers and bad formulas, and a self-assessment deadline that […]
Personal Tax Return Wimbledon: What to Do Before the Deadline
There’s something about a looming tax deadline that has a peculiar way of surfacing at the worst possible moments — usually around the time you’ve just booked a holiday, started a new project, or decided that January is definitely the month you’ll finally reorganise your life. Sound familiar? If you live or work in Wimbledon […]
CIS Refund: How to Claim Back What You’re Owed
If you work in construction as a subcontractor, there’s a decent chance HMRC is sitting on money that belongs to you. Not because of any error on your part — it’s just how the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) works. Contractors deduct tax from your payments before you even see them, at either 20% or 30%, […]
