New Making Tax Digital is now live for sole traders and landlords with gross qualifying income over £50,000. See if it affects you →
Plain English, no jargon

Making Tax Digital,
without the stress.

HMRC is moving tax online. It sounds like more work. With Lekhio it is less, because your records build themselves.

Which line does your income sit above? Drag it.
Your turnover and any rent added together, before a single expense comes off. That is not your profit, which is the number most people reach for. HMRC runs this test on a tax return you have already filed, so the year to use is the one on your last return.
£60,000
£0£20k£30k£50k£100k+
That is over the April 2026 line
THE £50,000 THRESHOLD
HMRC applies this test to a tax return you have already filed, not to the year you are in, and writes to you if you are in. For April 2026 it read your 2024 to 2025 return. If that letter came, you send four short updates a year and Lekhio prepares every one, ready for your approval.

Running a limited company?Making Tax Digital for Income Tax covers self employment and rent on a personal return, and your company's trade is neither: the company files its own return. If you also have a sole trade or rent of your own, drag the slider for that income alone.

A guide based on the announced thresholds, which are tested on gross qualifying income and never on profit. Your books stay ready with Lekhio either way.

General guidance, not tax advice for your exact situation. HMRC decides mandation from the tax return you have already filed, not from this page.

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Three simple things.

Lekhio does the first two. You stay in charge of the third.

Keep digital records

HMRC wants income and costs kept digitally. Lekhio logs every receipt and payment as you go.

Send four short updates

Four times a year you send HMRC your figures for the year so far. Each one restates the year and replaces the last, so nothing has to be perfect first time. Lekhio prepares each one.

You stay in control

Nothing goes to HMRC until you say yes. Lekhio keeps you ready. The final say is always yours.

The change, in one tap

The old way, and the new way.

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One big return, once a year

A shoebox of receipts, a lost weekend, and the January panic. One deadline where everything has to be right at once, with no time left to plan.

📅 January: panic
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Four short check-ins

Four times a year, each one covering the year so far and each one prepared for you. You check it, you send it. No panic, no shoebox, no scramble.

😌 Sorted, all year

Your year, in four easy updates.

Each one covers from 6 April up to the date shown, so every update restates the year so far and replaces the one before it. Lekhio prepares it, you check it over a brew and send it.

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Update 1To 5 Jul
2
Update 2To 5 Oct
3
Update 3To 5 Jan
4
Update 4To 5 Apr
Effortless

You barely lift a finger.

You text as you goReceipts, voice notes, payments
Your summary builds itselfSorted and ready, all year
You approve and sendNothing goes without your yes

Built by the book. Better than the rest.

While others leave you to it, Lekhio keeps you ready and does the sums properly.

Checked against HMRC's 2026/27 rules
Digital records kept the MTD way, today
HMRC recognition applied for
A real UK company

Get ready for MTD without lifting a finger.

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