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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.
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If you're PAYE, this is not really an issue, and if you're a large enough company to have salaried accountants/finance/payroll people, it's not an issue.
It's mainly a problem for the several million self-employed & small business owners.
Note that I mean "small business" like "a couple who own and run a small shop" or "a tradesperson with one employee" - not the government's definition of small business of "£10,000,000 a year and 50 employees".
right, I did a bit of reading on it, and it's just a new system that requires to file your reciepts digitally and more often if you're a business owner
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:
...from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Tax_Digital