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Small Businesses: Taxation

Asked by Ruth CadburyLabourTreasuryTabled Answered 9 June 2025UIN 54841

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she has taken to help support small businesses to understand the Making Tax Digital for Income Tax scheme.

Answered by James Murray

Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax is designed to help businesses keep on top of their tax affairs and support their wider productivity.

The government is undertaking a range of activities to ensure that those needing to use MTD for Income Tax understand the requirements and can do so successfully from April 2026. A communications campaign is underway, raising customer awareness of MTD for Income Tax and encouraging agents and customers to sign up for testing.

HMRC are supporting customers and agents with a suite of guidance products, direct communications, webinars, live events and social media activity to help them to prepare.

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