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Tag: Spreadsheets

Bookkeeping, Self Assessment and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

What’s all the fuss about Making Tax Digital?

It all depends on where you’re starting from, and whether you use more than one software package to handle your business record-keeping. If your business is straightforward, Making Tax Digital should be too. The main changes will be to make sure the way you keep your bookkeeping records in a way that complies with Making…
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How to use spreadsheets for Making Tax Digital

Despite the advantages of using software, what if you’re happy using spreadsheets for your bookkeeping and don’t want to change? In this blog, I explore a free bridging software solution that enables you to keep using spreadsheets and still comply with Making Tax Digital. Making Tax Digital and spreadsheets If your combined income from self-employment…
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Can I still use spreadsheets to keep my bookkeeping records?

The short answer is – yes, you can – but here are some factors to consider: Which tax system are you in? If you’re in Self Assessment, spreadsheets are absolutely fine. You can keep your records in a spreadsheet and manually transfer the totals onto your tax return once a year. If HMRC have moved…
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