If you're a UK sole trader, the rules around your tax return actually changed this year. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD ITSA) went live on 6 April 2026 for sole traders and landlords with qualifying income over £50,000 — meaning digital record-keeping and quarterly updates to HMRC, not just one annual return. The threshold drops to £30,000 from April 2027 and £20,000 from April 2028, pulling in hundreds of thousands more sole traders over the next two years. A quick honesty note on "AI": most HMRC-recognised software in this space doesn't market itself with heavy AI branding the way some US tools do. What it actually offers is solid automation — bank feed categorization, receipt capture, pre-filled quarterly submissions — which is the part that genuinely saves time, regardless of the label. Are you actually affected by MTD yet? Qualifying income over £50,000: you're in now (since April 2026) £30,000–£50,000: you join from April 2027 £20,000–£30,000: ...