Making Tax Digital for Income Tax starts 6 April 2026

Keep Your Spreadsheet. Get MTD-Ready in 15 Minutes.

No new software to learn. Keep your spreadsheet. We prepare your data for any MTD bridging tool — so sole traders and landlords can meet Making Tax Digital for Income Tax requirements without changing how they work.

Upload your Excel, CSV or bank file. Get a clean MTD-ready summary in 15 minutes — processed entirely in your browser.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax — are you ready?

Apr 2026: £50,000+Apr 2027: £30,000+Apr 2028: £20,000+

Sole traders and landlords must keep digital records and submit quarterly updates to HMRC.

The gap nobody talks about

Everyone says "use a bridging tool". Nobody explains what happens to your Excel spreadsheet first.

Your bookkeeping lives in Excel

Thousands of UK sole traders track income and expenses in a spreadsheet. It works — until MTD requires something different.

MTD requires quarterly digital submissions

From April 2026, you must submit quarterly summaries to HMRC. A bridging tool does the submission. But first, the data must be right.

Bridging tools assume clean data

Most bridging tools expect structured, categorised transactions — not a raw spreadsheet with merged cells, blank rows, and ambiguous entries.

TaxPrepUK sits between your spreadsheet and your bridging tool.

We clean, classify, and validate — so your quarterly submission is error-free.

Three steps. Fifteen minutes.

Compare that to the 4–6 hours it currently takes manually.

1

Upload

Drop your bank export file

Drag and drop any .xlsx, .xls, .csv, .ofx, or .qif file. TaxPrepUK detects your date, description, and amount columns automatically.

2

Classify

AI + MCC merchant data

No competitor does this: our AI cross-references MCC merchant category codes with transaction keywords to auto-classify into HMRC expense categories — 85%+ accuracy before you touch a thing. Review, confirm, or override with one click.

3

Validate & Export

Health Check PDF included

Before you export, our Health Check Report flags missing dates, duplicate transactions, and quarter gaps — catching errors before your bridging tool does. Download a clean Excel, CSV, or bridging-tool-ready file.

Trusted by UK sole traders and landlords

Saved me 4 hours of spreadsheet wrangling every quarter. Just upload, confirm, export.

James T.

Sole Trader, London

Finally something that works with my existing Excel setup. No need to learn new software.

Sarah M.

Landlord, Manchester

I process 15 client spreadsheets a quarter now. Used to take a full day, now it’s under 2 hours.

David R.

Bookkeeper, Bristol

Early user feedback. Names anonymised.

Everything between your messy spreadsheet and a perfect MTD submission

Other tools assume your data is clean. We make it clean.

85% of your transactions classified before you touch anything

Our classifier combines 200+ UK keyword patterns with MCC merchant category data to auto-assign HMRC expense categories. You just review, confirm, and override the few it misses.

Drop any file your bank gives you

Excel, CSV, OFX, and QIF — 5 formats, auto-detected columns, zero setup. If your bank exports it, we read it.

All plans

Audit-ready proof your data is clean

Branded 4-page PDF with financials, category breakdown, all health check results, and disclaimer. One click, client-ready.

Solo+

One click to 123Sheets or AbraTax

Export pre-filled with HMRC categories matching your bridging tool's template. Paste values straight in — no manual mapping.

Your data never leaves your device

Everything runs in your browser — classification, validation, export. We never see your spreadsheet, your tax numbers, or your transactions.

7 checks catch errors before HMRC does

Duplicate transactions, date gaps, out-of-quarter rows, anomalous amounts, missing income, round-number estimates, and capital allowance flags — all checked automatically before you export.

15 min

Average time from upload to export

85%+

AI classification accuracy

7 checks

Automated validations before export

Simple, transparent pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you need more.

Free

One free export per month. Enough to see exactly what TaxPrepUK does with your data.

Free
  • 1 export per month
  • Self-employment or property income
  • CSV export (row-level)
  • 7 automated health checks
  • Health Check PDF report
  • AI classification + OFX/QIF support
  • 1 session in history
  • Community support
  • Excel export
  • 123Sheets/AbraTax export
Most popular

Solo

Every format, every quarter, sorted in minutes.

£14.99/month
  • Unlimited exports
  • All income types (SE + Property)
  • CSV + Excel + 123Sheets + AbraTax export
  • Health Check PDF report
  • AI classification + OFX/QIF support
  • Unlimited session history
  • Email support

Practice

Standardise client spreadsheets across every format. One workflow for all of them.

£49.00/month
  • Everything in Solo
  • Unlimited session history
  • Bulk export
  • Priority support
  • Early access to new features

All plans include a 14-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime.

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know before getting started.

See what your data looks like clean

No sign-up needed to explore. Your first export is free — and your data never leaves your device.

Free forever · No HMRC login required · Your data stays private