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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:

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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This is from March 2025. Useful to see other groups concerned at what's happening and an official response. Their concerns:

...included the likely additional costs for taxpayers, risks to compliance, availability of software, and the impacts on unrepresented taxpayers.

Regarding the gov response:

We welcome the Minister’s assurances within this letter to CIOT that the software market will develop the functionality required but await a further update on how the Minister will ensure this functionality to be introduced, and continuously provided, by third party software providers which is outside the direct control of HMRC. 

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[–] IanTwenty@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

Great questions and I agree the word 'digital' is doing a lot of work in the phrase 'making tax digital'