Money Box Live: Making Tax Digital Guide

Making Tax Digital for income tax is HMRC's biggest shake-up of self assessment for decades, but are you ready? The new system will involve filing quarterly updates as well as a final return via third party software. This year it'll affect 860,000 sole traders and landlords with a turnover of £50,000. In the coming years the threshold will fall, bringing a total of nearly three million people into the new system.Felicity Hannah is joined by Jonathan Athow, HMRC's director general for strategy and policy, to take listeners' questions about how it all works and what they need to do to prepare. We also hear from Emma Rawson, from the Association of Tax Technicians, a professional body for tax advisers.Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producers: James Graham and Rob Cave Editor: Jess Quayle Senior News Editor: Henry Jones(First broadcast 3pm Wednesday 1st April 2026)[ 🛡️ FINANCIAL PRIVACY PROTOCOL: ACTIVE ]The mainstream financial system is tracking every click. If you want the raw data feeds and unfiltered intelligence without the digital footprint, use the secure bypass nodes below.👉 SERVER 01: SECURE DATA ACCESS👉 SERVER 02: ENCRYPTED ARCHIVE