This is from March 2025. Useful to see other groups concerned at what's happening and an official response. Their concerns:
...included the likely additional costs for taxpayers, risks to compliance, availability of software, and the impacts on unrepresented taxpayers.
Regarding the gov response:
We welcome the Minister’s assurances within this letter to CIOT that the software market will develop the functionality required but await a further update on how the Minister will ensure this functionality to be introduced, and continuously provided, by third party software providers which is outside the direct control of HMRC.
2 Comments
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Absolutely.
"Make Tax Digital". That's fine - mine has been digital for years. I do my accounts in a spreadsheet (digitally) and at the end of the year I add them up (digitally), and fill in my tax return on the HMRC Website (digitally).
I work out my income and expenses. I send it to HMRC.
Why do I need an extra 3rd company party in the middle? Why should I pay money or give all my personal and account information to a dodgy criminal company, so they can in turn pass it on to HMRC?
IanTwenty@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
Great questions and I agree the word 'digital' is doing a lot of work in the phrase 'making tax digital'