Sole trader or landlord? Check whether Making Tax Digital for Income Tax applies to you. Our plain-English guide covers thresholds, quarterly dates and sign-up, based on https://t.co/VL3yRGy3Wx. https://t.co/C4YqvioIB4
Most money worries in a small business start as small unanswered questions. Write the question down on Monday and the answer on Friday, and a vague worry becomes a short to-do list.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax runs on 'qualifying income': your total turnover from self-employment and property, before expenses. Over £50,000 and you should have started from 6 April 2026. Source: https://t.co/VL3yRGy3Wx. General information only. #MakingTaxDigital
Cannot pay a tax bill in full? https://t.co/VL3yRGy3Wx says you may be able to set up a payment plan to pay in instalments, and HMRC checks whether the plan is affordable. Source: https://t.co/VL3yRGy3Wx, 'Difficulties paying HMRC'. General information, not tax advice.
Sole traders and small business owners: which admin job do you keep putting off? Receipts, invoices, mileage, something else? Tell us, and we will cover the most common answer in a future post. #SmallBusiness
Not sure where to start when a tax bill is bigger than your balance? We have turned the https://t.co/VL3yRGy3Wx guidance on payment plans into plain-English questions and answers. https://t.co/3J3DLIl1u9
Small habit, big relief in January: once a month, drop your business receipts and invoices into one folder, paper or digital. Ten minutes now beats a weekend of hunting before the Self Assessment deadline.
Did you know? https://t.co/VL3yRGy3Wx lists the main rate of Corporation Tax as 25% for profits over £250,000 and a 19% small profits rate at £50,000 or less, with marginal relief in between. General information, not tax advice. #CorporationTax
Try this today: open your banking app and add a short note to any payment you cannot place at a glance. 'Printer ink, Nov' takes five seconds now and saves a puzzled hour at year end. #SoleTrader
Admin has a reputation problem. It looks like paperwork, but most of the time it is simply the business remembering what it did. Ten minutes of remembering on a Friday saves an afternoon of guessing in January.
Freelancers and sole traders: which expense did you only remember to claim after the year had ended? Tell us below so others can learn from it. #SelfEmployed
Good record keeping is less about clever systems and more about doing the small thing on the day: save the receipt, note the reason. Future you will be grateful, and so will your accountant.
What can a sole trader actually deduct? Our plain checklist runs through the main expense headings, what is off limits and how long to keep your records: https://t.co/y31TY1FKYv
Did you know? https://t.co/VL3yRGy3Wx says you cannot claim expenses if you use the £1,000 trading allowance, and you cannot claim capital allowances either. It is one route or the other, so work out which suits your costs. General information only. #SelfAssessment
Tip for sole traders: once a month, sort your spending under headings such as travel, stock and software, and note the business share of anything you also use privately. Twelve short sessions beat one frantic January weekend.
Did you know? https://t.co/VL3yRGy3Wx says you can ask HMRC to reduce payments on account if you expect a lower bill, online or with form SA303. Be realistic though: if the bill is higher, you pay interest on the difference. #SelfAssessment
January's tax bill can look bigger than expected. Our plain-English explainer covers payments on account: who pays, how each payment is worked out and how to ask HMRC to reduce them. https://t.co/KNBfstzCnZ