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Last updated 20 October 2026 · GOV.UK sources read 7 October 2026

“I have seen prices from £12 to £30 per month, which feels quite a lot for what is basically four submissions a year.”

We hear this most. a landlord pricing up the software, OpenRent Community forum, 14 May 2026 — someone in the same position as you.

This is the editorial policy for MTD Answers only: one subject, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, written for the sole trader or landlord who has to work out what the rules mean for them tonight.

Where the rules come from

A rule on this site comes from HMRC, in HMRC's own words, on GOV.UK, starting from HMRC's guide to who has to use Making Tax Digital and when. These are the GOV.UK pages our answers cite, and they are the same pages our re-check script reads:

Two kinds of page lean on something else as well. The free software table is priced on each provider's own pricing page, with the time of every read printed beside the price, and HMRC's software finder is the list it starts from. The Self Assessment helpline, registration and bank details pages quote HMRC's own contact pages on GOV.UK, and each figure there names the page it was read from.

What we never treat as a source

Software providers' sales pages, for anything except their own prices
Forums, social media and other explainer sites, for any rule at all
Our own earlier pages: a page is corrected against GOV.UK, never against another of our answers

We do quote people from public forums at the top of some pages, with a link to where they said it, because the question is easier to recognise in someone's own words. A quote shows the question. It is never the answer.

How a figure gets onto a page, and stays right

Linked at the point of use. A figure on an answer page sits next to a link to the GOV.UK page that holds it, and an automated test fails the page if that GOV.UK page does not contain the figure.
Dated. Each page prints the date we read its sources. That is a reading date, not a promise that nothing has moved since.
Re-read. A script asks GOV.UK when each source page was last updated and compares that with our reading date. One changed source takes the sources line off every page until the change has been read and every page that cites it has been put right.
Logged. A change in the rules goes onto the changes page with the date it applies from and the GOV.UK or legislation.gov.uk page that says so.
Signed for machines. Answers served from our free answers feed carry a signed receipt, so anyone can later prove what this site said and when, using the public key we publish.

Independence

We are not HMRC and not tax advisers. We take no commission, no referral fee and no advertising, and we rank no software product. The paid products sold here, the survival kit and the readiness checklist (alone or in a bundle), are named on their own pages; every rule they rely on is free to read on the answer pages first.

Corrections

Email hello@getaxionlabs.com with the page address and what you think is wrong. One person reads that mail and answers it; expect a reply within a few days. A confirmed error is corrected on the page, and the date the sitemap gives for that page moves with the correction.

Axion Labs

This is a small, family-run publishing project, not a firm. We're not accountants and nothing here is tax advice — it's published rules, in plain English, with the source and the date attached so you can check us. That's the whole offer. If you find an error, write to us at hello@getaxionlabs.com. One person reads that mail and answers it; expect a reply within a few days.

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