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Selling on Vinted or Etsy? The £1,000 Rule Is Real, the £3,000 Rule Is Not (Yet)
You have sold clothes on Vinted. You have freelanced at weekends, walked dogs, or delivered food through an app. Then a headline tells you HMRC is cracking down on side hustles, and the numbers in the next article contradict it. Three figures keep getting mixed up: £1,000, about £1,700, and £3,000. Each one does a…
Director of your own company? Four new boxes on your 2025/26 tax return
If you are a director of your own limited company, your 2025/26 Self Assessment return has extra work for you. The employment pages (SA102) now include four new boxes, numbered 7.1 to 7.4, for directors of close companies. Get them wrong and a £60 penalty can follow. Here is what each box needs and how…
Spotted an error in your tax return? HMRC wants a legal duty to make you fix it
You filed your tax return. Months later you spot a mistake. A figure is wrong, income is missing, or a relief was claimed twice. Most people would fix it. But right now the law does not spell out a clear duty to do so. Draft legislation published by HMRC on 13 July 2026 would change…
Signing up for MTD Income Tax? You’ll need a phone photo-ID check now
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax starts on 6 April 2026 for sole traders and landlords with qualifying income over £50,000. If that is you, HMRC says you should sign up now. If your income is lower, check whether the £30,000 threshold catches you from April 2027. One step of the sign-up process has changed.…
November 2026 Tax Deadlines: The Seven Deadlines You Cannot Afford to Miss
November is one of the busiest months in the UK tax calendar. Seven deadlines land within four weeks, and three of them fall on weekends, which changes how you should plan your payments. This is a date-by-date run-through of what is due, who it affects, and what to do about each one. If you miss…
HMRC Now Pre-Fills Child Benefit and Winter Fuel Payment on Your Tax Return: What to Check
HMRC has started pre-filling parts of your Self Assessment tax return for you. Around 300,000 people who pay the High Income Child Benefit Charge will now find their Child Benefit payment details already entered on their online return. Winter Fuel Payments are being pre-filled too. The change arrived in HMRC’s October announcement urging people to…
HMRC’s Second Wave of Tax Letters: What a Simple Assessment Means and How to Avoid Paying Twice
HMRC is sending a second wave of Simple Assessment letters between October and December 2026. If one lands on your doormat, do not ignore it, and do not pay it straight away without checking. The new letter shows your whole year’s tax bill, and it can include amounts you have already paid. This is the…
One in Three MTD Tools Still Cannot File Full Returns: What to Check Before the 7 November Update
Choosing software is the single most important decision in Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. Pick wrong and you could discover, months later, that your tool cannot actually file your tax return. Fresh analysis of HMRC’s own software list shows the scale of the trap. Of 128 products listed for property income, 44 cannot file…
HMRC Says Six Months to Go: £30k+ Traders Urged to Sign Up for MTD Now
HMRC says six months to go until MTD for Income Tax reaches sole traders and landlords with turnover over £30,000. Who is affected, how the turnover test works, and why signing up now pays off.
Autumn Budget 2026 Preview: What to Expect on 28 October
The Autumn Budget lands on Wednesday 28 October 2026. Chancellor John Healey will stand up at around 12:30pm, straight after Prime Minister’s Questions. It is his first Budget, and the first under Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The Chancellor confirms nothing until the speech. But we already know a lot, and some changes traditionally take effect…
