Making Tax Digital, Free and Open

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This is a new place for discussing the UK government's Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative. In particular how we as a community can continue to file our taxes freely in terms of both:

Avoiding high fees and vendor lock-in to commercial software
Maintaining user freedoms with free and open source software

We are starting some 'wiki' posts that will answer the main questions and be continually updated from your comments:

Disclaimer: we are not experts and cannot guarantee accuracy here. Always seek your own financial advice.

Our banner is in the public domain and titled "G. Reisch, Margarita philosophica" from the Wellcome Collection (source) It's a medieval illustration showing a woman sitting at a counting table and a man at another table using an abacus.

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IanTwenty@feddit.uk

I dont get this, HMRC files our taxes for free already (feddit.uk)

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[–] IanTwenty@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

Yes my apologies, this only affects certain people/businesses who are required to submit tax returns, not everyone which I guess was your original question. Might have to add more explanation to our sidebar about who this impacts. Though note that it's not businesses only and if you circumstances change in future it could affect you:

The changes are expected apply to a wide range of taxpayers, including most businesses, micro-businesses, self-employed people and landlords, as well as individual taxpayers.

...from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Tax_Digital