Making Tax Digital for Sole Traders: 2026 Guide
What Making Tax Digital means for UK sole traders and the self-employed: when it starts for you, quarterly updates, digital records, and how to get ready.
Making Tax Digital for sole traders is HMRC scheme that moves self-employed record-keeping and reporting online, and this guide explains it in plain English for UK tradespeople. Under the published timeline MTD for Income Tax starts from April 2026 for qualifying income over £50,000, April 2027 for over £30,000, and a further extension to over £20,000 was announced for April 2028, so your start date depends on your turnover before expenses and should be checked on gov.uk.
You must keep digital records of business income and expenses, send quarterly updates using HMRC-recognised MTD software, and file a final declaration after the tax year. KaamCam is not MTD filing software, but it keeps your jobs, quotes, VAT invoices, payments, and photos clean and digital in one place, the record-keeping foundation MTD demands, at $12 a month, about £9..