How to use the MTD for Landlords: full video tutorial
Sort a year's property income and expenses into HMRC's four Making Tax Digital quarters, with totals and deadlines.
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Making Tax Digital for Income Tax means quarterly updates for landlords with qualifying income over £50,000 from April 2026, over £30,000 from April 2027 and over £20,000 from April 2028. This full guide walks you through every box and result in the Property Clues MTD Quarterly Pack, using an example year with £30,675 of rent.
What you'll learn
- Who Making Tax Digital applies to, and when
- Filling in each quarter by SA105 line, where a blank stays blank
- Total allowable expenses, net income and the year-to-date figures each update reports
- Section 24 mortgage interest relief as an upper figure
- The quarterly deadlines, tracking what has been sent, and the final declaration
Chapters
- £50,000+ income? 4 updates a year (example year)
- Finding your way around
- The headline figures
- Your quarterly figures
- Totals and year to date
- Submission deadlines
- Net by quarter
- Repairs, interest and rent received
- What if a big repair lands in quarter 2?
- What if the property sits empty?
- Staying ahead of each update
- What goes on each line
- Deadlines and the final declaration
- Saving and recap
Figures in the video are a worked example. Property Clues tools are educational calculators and checklists, not financial, tax, mortgage or legal advice. Speak to a qualified adviser about your own situation. The voice in the video is AI-generated.