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Platform & core solutions
Choose your software, find support for your business and explore the tools available today.
Core platform & pricing
Core audience solutions
Final Declaration & year-end tax hubs
Understand how personal income fits alongside quarterly business updates. Each hub explains the relevant records and Avona’s current development status.
Personal income & the annual return
- Final Declaration overview
Quarterly updates, the annual tax return and development status.
- Employment & PAYE
Salary, P60 records and employment benefits.
- Savings & investments
UK and foreign savings interest and dividend income.
- Pensions & retirement
State and private pensions, contributions and tax relief.
- Property & overseas income
Property income, overseas records and foreign tax credits.
- Capital Gains Tax
Property and other asset disposals, including reporting deadlines.
- Allowances & charges
Allowances, student loans, Gift Aid and child benefit charges.
Industry & profession compliance guides
Explore 101 profession guides, grouped by the work you do. Find relevant records, expenses and MTD guidance.
Building & construction trades
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- Air-conditioning and refrigeration engineers
- Bathroom fitters
- Bricklayers
- Builders
- Carpenters and joiners
- Domestic appliance repairers
- Driveway and paving contractors
- Electricians
- Fencing contractors
- Flooring contractors
- Groundworkers
- Handypeople and property maintenance workers
- Heating engineers
- Kitchen fitters
- Landscapers and gardeners
- Locksmiths
- Painters and decorators
- Plasterers
- Plumbers
- Roofers
- Scaffolders
- Tilers
- Tree surgeons
- Welders and metal fabricators
- Window and door installers
Health, beauty & wellness
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- Acupuncturists
- Beauty therapists
- Counsellors and psychotherapists
- Dietitians and nutritionists
- Hairdressers and barbers
- Hypnotherapists
- Makeup artists
- Massage therapists
- Nail technicians
- Osteopaths and chiropractors
- Personal trainers
- Physiotherapists
- Pilates instructors
- Podiatrists and chiropodists
- Private carers and personal assistants
- Sports therapists
- Tattoo artists
- Yoga instructors
Transport & automotive
10
Creative, digital & crafts
17
- Architects and surveyors
- Computer repair and IT support technicians
- Copywriters and content creators
- Dressmakers, tailors and alterations specialists
- Furniture restorers and upholsterers
- Graphic designers
- Interior designers
- Jewellery makers
- Market stall traders
- Online sellers and e-commerce traders
- Photographers
- Social media managers
- Sound engineers and music producers
- Translators and interpreters
- Videographers
- Voiceover artists
- Web developers
Professional & educational services
15
- Childminders
- Dance teachers
- Domestic energy assessors
- Freelance bookkeepers
- Health and safety consultants
- HR consultants
- Independent inventory clerks
- Independent sports coaches
- Management consultants
- Marketing consultants
- Private tutors
- Project managers
- Recruitment consultants
- Swimming teachers
- Virtual assistants
Hospitality, events & food
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Insights, tax guides & knowledge base
Find all 195 articles by topic, from qualifying income and quarterly updates to expenses and practice workflows.
MTD legislation & thresholds
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- A mid-period review of your second-quarter MTD records
- A mid-year CIS statement check for the second MTD update
- A month before the MTD deadline: spread the filing work across four stages
- A practical checklist before your MTD quarter ends
- Air-conditioning engineers: managing F-gas compliance, kit, and MTD thresholds
- Are payments on account changing under Making Tax Digital?
- Basis period reform and MTD: the tax year is not always your accounting year
- Bathroom fitters: handling sanitaryware supply, skips, and quarterly MTD updates
- Bicycle mechanics: tracking workshop tools, components, and MTD compliance
- Breakdown recovery operators: truck finance, winches, and 24/7 callouts under MTD
- Building contractors: handling plant hire, subcontractors, and MTD reporting
- Built around the everyday work of a sole trader
- Can you submit the first MTD update on 1 July?
- Carpet and upholstery cleaners: machine depreciation, chemicals, and MTD
- Cash basis and traditional accounting: choosing the right timing for your records
- Chimney sweeps: power sweeping kit, van soot disposal, and seasonal MTD filing
- Correcting an MTD update: fix the records and use the supported process
- Digital exclusion: who can qualify for an MTD exemption?
- Dog groomers: hydrobaths, blade sharpening, salon utilities, and MTD
- Dog walkers and pet sitters: van crating, licences, insurance, and MTD
- Domestic and commercial cleaners: industrial vacuums, chemicals, and MTD filing
- Domestic energy assessors: EPC lodge fees, accreditation, and MTD quarterly reporting
- Dressmakers and tailors: fabric stock, sewing machines, and tracking fittings under MTD
- Driveway and paving contractors: heavy aggregates, plant hire, and MTD turnover thresholds
- Electric cars and diesel vans: comparing tax treatment for a sole trader
- Electricians and builders: tracking materials and labour on site
- Event florists: flower market wholesale, refrigeration, and managing wedding deposits
- Fencing contractors: timber posts, post-mix, and mobile van record keeping under MTD
- Five days before quarter end: a practical MTD preparation plan
- Flooring contractors: screeds, underlay trade accounts, and MTD cash-basis tracking
- From the 5 July quarter end to the 7 August MTD deadline
- Furniture restorers and upholsterers: specialist fabrics, workshop power, and MTD
- Gross turnover vs profit: why £50k revenue triggers MTD
- Handling cash payments in a digital tax system
- High Income Child Benefit Charge: why adjusted net income matters under MTD
- HMRC's September 2026 MTD sign-up process: what it means for you
- Holiday lets and standard buy-to-let: the tax rules after FHL abolition
- How delivery drivers and couriers should report platform earnings
- How HMRC assesses a digital-exclusion application
- How outstanding quarterly work affects your MTD annual return
- How quarterly updates work: dispelling the four-tax-returns myth
- How to find and check your Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)
- How to run a monthly health check on your digital records
- How to split phone and broadband bills between personal and business use
- Keeping an MTD deadline from taking over your weekend
- Lost your Government Gateway login? How to recover access
- Making Tax Digital for counsellors and psychotherapists: supervision, rooms, and fees
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax: the 2026 guide for sole traders & landlords.
- Making Tax Digital is live: what changes for sole traders and landlords
- Marriage Allowance and MTD: where the personal tax relief fits
- Missed the first MTD update? A practical route back to complete records
- Missing the 7 August 2026 MTD deadline: what to do next
- Mixing personal and business money: how to keep reliable tax records
- MTD deadline day: what to check before you finish
- MTD for architects and building surveyors: milestone billing and professional fees
- MTD reporting periods: standard tax quarters and calendar quarters
- Preparing for the £30,000 MTD threshold from April 2027
- Preventing an MTD backlog from becoming an annual-return bottleneck
- Private pension contributions and your self-employed tax calculation
- Private tutors and instructors: tracking small lesson payments
- Quarterly MTD updates and the annual return: what each stage does
- Receiving an HMRC MTD letter in September: how to respond
- Recording customer refunds and payment-provider chargebacks for MTD
- Replacement of domestic items relief for property landlords
- Section 24 mortgage interest relief: calculating residential finance restrictions
- Selling on eBay, Vinted and Depop: when second-hand sales become trading income
- Should you incorporate as a limited company to avoid MTD?
- Side hustle or trading business? Understanding the £1,000 trading allowance
- Six steps for the days before an MTD filing deadline
- Small weekly tax habits that make quarterly reporting easier
- Sole traders with a day job: handling PAYE salary alongside MTD
- Student loan repayments and MTD: how the annual calculation works
- Submitting your first MTD update: a practical walkthrough
- The £59.2 billion tax gap: why HMRC is moving the UK to Making Tax Digital.
- The 2026/27 MTD penalty concession and the points rules that follow
- The day before an MTD deadline: a focused filing review
- The dual-income dilemma: managing both property and freelance taxes under MTD.
- The final week before an MTD deadline: a submission checklist
- The sole trader survival guide to MTD wave 1
- The UK tax gap and why digital business records matter
- Translators and copywriters: calculating business use of the home
- Two weeks before an MTD deadline: starting a digital-record catch-up
- Understanding the MTD £50k threshold: do the new rules apply to you?
- Universal Credit and MTD: keeping monthly and quarterly reporting aligned
- Using a phone for MTD filing between trade jobs
- Wedding florists and bakers: accounting for seasonal stock and customer advances
- What an HMRC submission acknowledgement tells you
- What happens if your turnover drops below the MTD threshold?
- What is a balancing payment and how does it fit into quarterly updates?
- What to check in the month before an MTD quarter ends
- Why a missed 2026/27 quarterly update does not trigger an automatic £100 fine
- Why a quarterly MTD update is an information summary, not a tax demand
- Why we put off tax paperwork and how to make the next step smaller
- Window cleaners and mobile rounds: organising recurring customer payments
- Your MTD figures do not balance: a reconciliation guide for deadline week
Allowable business expenses
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- Allowable expenses for UK landlords: what you can (and can't) claim.
- Avona vs. the spreadsheet: is your current system ready for MTD in 2026?
- Avona, Xero, FreeAgent and Sage: comparing the annual software cost
- Bakers and cake designers: managing ingredient costs, wedding deposits, and MTD
- Bricklayers and MTD: managing CIS deductions, trowel wear, and site travel
- Business subsistence: when a self-employed person can claim meals while travelling
- Business travel costs: parking, tolls and congestion charges
- Can you claim professional training courses and certifications?
- Capital allowances vs allowable expenses: claiming tools and machinery
- Carpenters and joiners: timber yard trade accounts, workshop costs, and MTD
- Childminder expenses under MTD: the change to the old PACEY arrangements
- Childminders using MTD: reviewing food and household costs mid-year
- Childminders: PACEY expense arrangements, food, and household costs under MTD
- CIS subcontractors: checking deduction statements before an MTD update
- Claiming business mileage: 2026/27 rates vs actual vehicle costs
- Claiming business software subscriptions and computer equipment
- Commercial vehicles: Annual Investment Allowance, writing-down allowances and full expensing
- Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) under MTD: how deductions work
- Creative tax deductions: what designers, writers and artists can claim
- Dance teachers: studio hire, music licences, costumes, and quarterly MTD updates
- DJs and performing musicians: gig travel, sound kit, and late-night tax tracking
- Dog groomers and walkers: keeping track of allowable business expenses
- Dog trainers and behaviourists: field hire, training equipment, and quarterly MTD
- Domestic appliance repairers: parts stock, diagnostic tools, and van expenses under MTD
- Driving instructors and MTD: dual-control car leases, pupil fees, and fuel deductions
- Driving instructors: claiming dual-control leases, fuel and franchise fees
- Electricians and Making Tax Digital: wholesale cable, test meters, and site expense logging
- Five expense and income categories to check before an MTD update
- Foreign rental property: keeping currency records and overseas tax evidence
- Gardeners and landscapers: recording machinery, materials and waste costs
- Graphic designers: Adobe Creative Cloud, font licensing, and MTD home office claims
- Hairdressers, barbers and chair rent: managing daily takings
- HMO management: tracking allowable running costs
- How property landlords must track rental income across multiple properties
- Joint property ownership: splitting rental income with a spouse or partner
- Keeping mileage records on your phone: simplified expenses and actual vehicle costs
- Making Tax Digital for acupuncturists: clinic costs, needles, and quarterly updates
- Making Tax Digital for beauty therapists: salon chair rent, products, and bookings
- Mobile caterers and street-food businesses: tracking pitch fees, stock and fuel
- Multi-drop couriers and delivery drivers: vehicle costs, fuel, and MTD compliance
- Personal trainers: claiming gym rent, equipment and professional development
- Photographers and videographers: claiming equipment and production costs
- Private therapists: recording room hire, supervision and professional costs
- Private-hire drivers: vehicle finance, insurance and licensing costs
- Property repairs and capital improvements: deciding how to treat the cost
- Protective workwear, uniforms and everyday clothes: what a sole trader can claim
- Rental-property energy standards and legal changes: keeping the tax records clear
- Self-employed drivers: vehicle leasing, fuel cards, and staying compliant with MTD
- Selling business equipment or a vehicle: recording the disposal correctly
- Simplified expenses vs. actual costs: a sole trader's guide.
- Tattoo artists: tracking studio rent, supplies and licence costs
- Tenant deposits and letting-agent fees: explaining gross and net rent
- The £1,000 property allowance: how it interacts with MTD and expenses
- The true cost of late tax filing and how to avoid penalties.
- Touring musicians and DJs: travel, accommodation and equipment costs
- Working from home: simplified flat rates vs actual costs
Avona software & technology
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- A family gift paid into a sole-trader bank account: how to record it
- Avona and Pie Tax: choosing a modern tax-software workflow
- Avona vs heavy accounting platforms: why simple does not mean basic
- Bank feeds, PDF statements and receipt scans: choosing an import method
- Behind the scenes of Avona AI: how smart categorisation helps
- Can you still use Excel? The truth about MTD bridging software
- Considering a move from FreeAgent or Pie Tax to Avona
- Copywriters and content creators: home working allowances, software, and MTD
- Dietitians and registered nutritionists: clinical tools, software, and MTD
- How to assess the security of your tax software
- How to set up your Avona account with less admin
- IT support technicians: components, software licences, and quarterly MTD updates
- Last-minute MTD questions: missing receipts, tax payments and submission status
- Making the final MTD submission step straightforward in Avona
- Managing several bank accounts across trades and property businesses
- Open Banking and screen scraping: understanding how a bank connection works
- Overcoming software anxiety: a manageable route into digital records
- Reviewing your quarterly summary in Avona before submission
- Setting up bank categorisation rules for the second MTD update
- Using Avona to organise historical records for a missed MTD update
- What HMRC actually means by digital links under MTD
- What to do when a bank feed disconnects during filing week
- What to do with your bank records after an MTD quarter ends
- What useful tax-software support should help you resolve
- Why Open Banking is the secret to stress-free tax compliance.
- Why Open Banking is the secret to zero-stress tax compliance
Accountants & practice management
18
- Authorising an accountant for MTD: how agent access and form 64-8 fit together
- Choosing bookkeeping software your sole-trader clients can use consistently
- Comparing accountants' fees for quarterly MTD support
- Consultants: distinguishing client entertaining from travel subsistence
- Ditching the shoebox: capturing receipts for digital bookkeeping
- Freelance bookkeepers: professional software, practice indemnity, and MTD quarterly updates
- How Avona Concierge can support your quarterly filing routine
- How to read an estimated tax bill in your bookkeeping software
- Monitoring MTD filing progress across an accountancy practice
- Outsourcing MTD work under your practice brand: what to agree first
- Packaging MTD practice services: defining Bronze, Silver and Gold scopes
- Planning a practice workflow around Karbon and Avona
- Protecting practice margins when supporting MTD sole traders
- Reducing client document chasing with clear requests and secure links
- Reducing repeated client queries during quarterly reconciliation
- Three practice email templates for clients with an overdue MTD update
- Unbundled software and professional fees: a clearer model for practices
- Using portal access links securely: what Avona clients should check
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