MAAP Accountants of Christchurch, Bournemouth, Poole, and the New Forest

MAAP Accountants are based in Christchurch, and service clients across the New Forest, Christchurch, Bournemouth, and Poole regions.

We have been providing traditional-valued financial accounting and tax-advisory services using modern technology to personal and business clients for over forty years.

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Guide: MTD made simple

MTD: Sole-traders

MTD: Landlords

If you are an individual or businesses looking for an accounting and tax adviser who works to the highest traditional professional standards by using the latest technology to deliver an affordable, trust-worthy face-to-face service they need … Then we look forward to speaking to you. Call us on 079 1234 1549.

Phase-2 sole-traders and landlords begin their MTD-journey in April 2027.
They need to start planning now to be ready to meet their new MTD-reporting obligations.

MAAP has successfully worked with the first group of sole-traders and landlords to comply with their obligations under the MTD regime. Through good planning, making the first return in August 2026 proved to be straightforward and passed without a hitch.

If you are a sole-trader or landlord with a qualifying annual income over £30,000 in the tax-year 2025-26, you will be in the Phase 2 group of taxpayers who will need to begin MTD reporting from April 2027 and make your first return by August 2027. Compliance requires you to digitally record your separate sources of income and expenditure for every self-employed business you run, and/or both your UK combined property income and your overseas combined property income if applicable.

Complying with MTD is not difficult, but it does require Phase-2 MTD taxpayers to begin organising, recording and reporting their taxable income and allowable expenditure from the start of April 2027, instead of leaving preparing their 2027-28 Self Assessment tax return to just before the filing deadline of January 2029 … As they might have done in the past. That is a massive call-to-action time shift to take on-board.

There is only one mistake a Phase-2 taxpayer can make concerning MTD, and that is ignoring it until they have to make their first MTD-return in August 2027. Read our MTD-Guide to learn more about what is involved. Call us on 079 1234 1549 for a free consultation on how MAAP can meet your MTD-obligations … stress-free.