HMRC Froze the MTD Software List. Choose Now, Not in 2027
HMRC has stopped accepting new MTD for Income Tax software for 2026-27 and will not publish replacement rules until early 2027. Why I would pick now.
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The 40% Allowance Has No CT600 Box. I Use 725 and 760
The 40% first-year allowance has applied since January 2026, but the CT600 has no box for it until April 2027. Where I put the claim in the meantime.
Nobody Is Backing Up Your Cloud Ledger. Including Me
Xero archives your file when you stop paying. QuickBooks deletes it after a year. HMRC wants six years of records. Here is what I export, and when.
HMRC Pushed Me Digital, Then Banned My Gateway Automation
HMRC has reaffirmed that screen scraping its Government Gateway is banned and can block your agent account for it. Here is what I am auditing in my own stack.
Anthropic Shipped a Month-End Close Agent. I Tested It.
Anthropic shipped a month-end close AI agent on 5 May 2026. I tested it on a sandboxed Xero file. Honest notes on what works, what does not, and what changes.
Six Accounting Platforms Promised AI. Here's What Actually Works.
A practitioner's quick tour of AI in UK & UAE cloud accounting. What Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent, Dext and Zoho Books promise vs what actually ships today.