Tax on rental income UK paperwork on kitchen table with HMRC self assessment letter and house keys

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 […]

UK landlord completing SA105 form to report rental income to HMRC on laptop with paperwork and keys on table

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 […]

A wooden desk showing a traditional paper rental ledger with loose receipts on the left and an open laptop displaying a cloud accounting dashboard on the right, representing a UK landlord's transition to Making Tax Digital for income tax self assessment under MTD ITSA from April 2026

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). […]