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). […]

QuickBooks for landlords UK – comparison of traditional paper records versus digital accounting software dashboard

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 […]