Written Question·Treasury·UIN 70397

Taxation: Electronic Government

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

Sir Alec Shelbrooke

ConservativeWetherby and Easingwold

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) quarterly tax returns and (b) mandatory use of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax software to small and medium enterprises.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax quarterly updates are not the same as tax returns. They are simple, unadjusted summaries of income and expenditure, populated automatically through software and easily submitted. The latest published assessment of M...

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