Tax on Rental Income UK: What Landlords Must Know in 2025/26
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes So you’ve got a tenant in, the standing order lands on the first of every month, and life looks tidy. Then January creeps up, a polite-but-firm letter from HMRC arrives, and you realise that tax on rental income UK landlords face isn’t optional — and it isn’t simple either. I’ve […]
How to Reduce Corporation Tax Legally (2025/26)
Nobody wakes up excited to pay HMRC. Yet every year, thousands of perfectly profitable UK companies hand over more corporation tax than they actually owe — not through fraud, not through carelessness, but because they never got round to using the reliefs Parliament wrote into law specifically for them. This guide is about how to […]
How to Register for VAT UK 2026: The Plain-English Walkthrough
If you’ve been Googling how to register for VAT UK rules at 11pm on a Tuesday — turnover climbing, phone ringing, second hire on payroll — you’re in the right place. This is the working guide I wish someone had handed me the first time the £90,000 number turned up uninvited. Here’s the thing nobody mentions when […]
How to Report Rental Income to HMRC: A Landlord’s 2026 Guide
Nobody becomes a landlord because they love paperwork. You bought the flat in Streatham, or inherited Auntie Margaret’s terrace in Tooting, or scraped together a deposit for a buy-to-let — and suddenly working out how to report rental income to HMRC has become a Sunday-evening anxiety, complete with a mug of cold tea and that […]
What Expenses Can a Limited Company Claim?
Ask any new company director what keeps them awake at three in the morning and you’ll get a fairly predictable shortlist. Cashflow. That weird email from HMRC. And — sooner or later — the slightly panicked question of what expenses can a limited company claim before this year’s corporation tax bill lands like a brick […]
Making Tax Digital Deadline 2026: What You Need to Do
Let’s be honest about something. Most self-employed people and landlords in the UK have been quietly ignoring the words “Making Tax Digital” for the better part of a decade. HMRC announced it, delayed it, announced it again, and delayed it again. Twice. And after the third announcement, you’d be forgiven for thinking it would just […]
What Records Do I Need for a Tax Return? Here’s the Stuff HMRC Actually Wants
Right, let’s be honest for a second. Nobody wakes up excited about their tax return. Nobody. If you do, please write to me — I’d love to know your secret (and possibly borrow some of whatever you’re drinking in the morning). But here’s the thing. The dread most people feel about Self Assessment isn’t really […]
The Quiet Revolution in Your Tax Return: MTD for Income Tax Lands in April 2026
Right. Let’s talk about the thing that’s quietly ruining accountants’ summer holidays and sending landlord WhatsApp groups into mild panic. If you’re a sole trader or a landlord earning above a certain threshold, the way you talk to HMRC is about to change in a fairly fundamental way. Not in a “fill out a slightly […]
Construction Accounting: A UK Contractor’s 2026 Guide
There’s a particular look I’ve come to recognise on the faces of contractors who walk into our office for the first time, usually after their first proper run-in with construction accounting. Equal parts exhausted and slightly cornered. Usually they’ve just had a letter. Sometimes a phone call. Almost always a number — a number that […]
