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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2025/26 Self Assessment Tax Return: Key Dates and What to Prepare
Let’s be honest. For most people, the 2025/26 self assessment tax return lands somewhere between “root canal” and “sorting out the garden shed” on the list of things they’d cheerfully put off indefinitely. And yet, every January, millions of people in the UK find themselves hunched over a laptop at 11pm on the 31st, wondering why they […]
