Making Tax Digtal (MTD) for Income Tax
How does it work?
You can use Aworka to send your income tax quarterly updates directly to HMRC. Aworka makes it easy...
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Register with HMRC
Tell HMRC you want to use MTD for Income Tax.
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Choose the Aworka Smart Plan
The Smart plan is required to use MTD for Income Tax (or the Team plan if you need VAT as well).
If you already have an Aworka account Log In then go to your Settings and Change Plan
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Link Aworka to your tax account
Select the self employment business you are using Aworka for. You can connect multiple Aworka accounts if you have more than one self-employment business.
Note that you would need to Find Other Software to use alongside Aworka, if you also have income from property.
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View your quarterly updates
See the updates you need to send and when.
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Match your Expense Categories
Match your Aworka expense categories to the fixed set of categories used by HMRC. Opt to consilodate or itemise your expenses.
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Choose Cash or Traditional accounting
Aworka supports both cash basis and traditional (accrual) accounting methods, and lets you change methods with HMRC.
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Send a quarterly update
After the end of a quarter, create your quarterly update report. Aworka will work out the figures for your income and expenses and send this to HMRC.
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End of Year
There will be more reports to send after the end of the tax year. The plan is to add support for these to Aworka in the coming months, or you can Find Other Software
Who has to do this?
From 6 April 2026, sole traders and landlords must use it if their qualifying income from self-employment and property is over £50,000.
From 2027, the qualifying income threshold lowers to £30,000, then £20,000 in 2028.