The second quarter, then the third
The second quarter’s update, due by 7 November 2026, carries £32,970 of income so far. The third, in progress until 5 January 2027, already holds £36,470, with nobody adding it up.
LetCompliance is recognised by HMRC for Making Tax Digital
Your quarterly updates and your tax return go to HMRC from the account that already holds your rent and expenses. Listed on GOV.UK since 18 September 2026 for UK property income. You check each update and send it.
HMRC recognised software for landlords: what it means for you
HMRC-recognised software is software on GOV.UK’s Making Tax Digital list, and HMRC recommends none of them over another. LetCompliance has been on it since 18 September 2026 for UK property income, so the records you keep for the let become your quarterly updates and your tax return. The Making Tax Digital for landlords page shows how it works, from sign-up to tax return.
1account for the let and the tax on it
Nothing to type twice
The rent and expenses you record for the let are the figures HMRC gets. Each quarter they are already in HMRC’s own categories, whether they came from Finance, a photographed receipt or an imported bank statement.
Sent from your account, confirmed by HMRC
Check the quarter and press Submit to HMRC. LetCompliance keeps a copy of exactly what was sent, and HMRC confirms it against your obligations.
The year end as well
After 5 April, answer the year-end questions and send your tax return by 31 January. HMRC works out the Income Tax and National Insurance, you read it and confirm.
Ready for an accountant too
The quarterly export gives your update figures in HMRC’s categories as CSV files, for an accountant or other software to import rather than retype, and the mileage log keeps journeys at HMRC’s rates.
The listing is public
GOV.UK’s software finder (opens in a new tab) opens without signing in. Every product on it is recognised by HMRC, and each one’s page shows what it covers in three statuses. These are the lines on LetCompliance’s page.
HMRC’s mark appears here with its reference, as HMRC asks, and it covers the Making Tax Digital software only.
- On the list since
- Listed as
- Individual software
- Covers
- UK property income
Ready now
- Quarterly updates for UK property income
- The tax return for UK property income
- Software that creates digital records
- Standard and calendar update periods
- Individual software, for your own tax record
- Use with impaired vision or hearing, motor or physical difficulties, or cognitive impairments
In development
- UK interest
- UK dividends
Being built for the 2026 to 2027 tax return.
Not included
- Self-employment and foreign property income
- Agent software, for filing for clients
- Bridging software for a spreadsheet
- HMRC Assist
Each quarterly update carries the one before
The quarterly updates in the sample account on 19 Oct 2026. An update covers the tax year from 6 April to the end of its quarter, so each one starts from the figures of the last and adds what came in since.
Four steps, and only the last one repeats
Everything after signing up happens in your LetCompliance account, and it only ever reaches your own tax record, under the Government Gateway account you connect.
Sign up for Making Tax Digital on GOV.UK
Done once, and separate from any software, unless HMRC has signed you up already. You need to be registered for Self Assessment and to have filed a return in the last 2 years. Until you are signed up, HMRC lets no software reach your Making Tax Digital record.
Choose a plan and add your properties
From £7.99 a month. A whole portfolio comes in from one spreadsheet, and Making Tax Digital is on every paid plan.
Connect your HMRC account
A one-time sign-in with the same Government Gateway ID you use for Self Assessment, then add your National Insurance number.
Record as you go, send each quarter
Log rent and expenses as they happen. Send each update by 7 August, 7 November, 7 February and 7 May.
The tax runs on the same records as the rest of the let
Each property keeps one record of its rent and its costs, so the figures HMRC receives are the ones you already keep. Certificate and deposit dates are watched in the background.
Making Tax Digital, start to finish
Whether and when it starts for you, read from your own records, then the four updates of the year and the tax return after them, on one page.
Sample account with made-up details, 18 Oct 2026 Expenses from a bank statement or a receipt
Import a bank statement as a CSV and match each payment to rent or a cost, or photograph a receipt and confirm the draft. Nothing is recorded until you confirm it.
Sample account with made-up details, 18 Oct 2026 Rent by Direct Debit
The rent is collected from the due date into your own Stripe account, with no commission, and each payment is recorded as income in the quarter it lands in.
Sample account with made-up details, 17 Oct 2026 Your accountant
Export a CSV, one laid out for Xero or the SA105 figures. Or give your accountant a read-only link to the figures, the ledger and the receipts, with no account to set up.
Sample account with made-up details, 18 Oct 2026
Making Tax Digital on every paid plan, from £7.99 a month
Making Tax Digital, the Tax pack with your SA105 figures and the Section 24 calculator come with every paid plan, not the 3-day trial: £7.99 a month for one property (Single), £14.99 for up to 3 (Solo), £19 for up to 10 (Portfolio), £29 for up to 20 (Portfolio Plus) and £49 for any number (Professional), with no VAT added.
Every quarterly update and your tax return are in the plan, with no charge for each submission. LetCompliance on GOV.UK’s software list
What GOV.UK says to check, answered for LetCompliance
Being on the list is where it starts. GOV.UK asks you to check that the software covers every income source you have and every submission you need to make, and only one product can send the quarterly updates for your property income.
- It is on GOV.UK’s software finder
- Yes, since 18 September 2026, as software for individuals.
- It supports all your income sources
- UK property income. Not self-employment or foreign property income; UK interest and dividends are in development.
- It sends your quarterly updates and your tax return
- Both, for UK property income. The tax return can go from here when UK property is the only income you need to add yourself.
- It lets you report your other income
- Only what HMRC adds itself, such as the employment and pension income it already holds. A tax return that needs savings interest, dividends or other income you add yourself, or a relief or charge such as pension contributions, Gift Aid or the High Income Child Benefit Charge, goes from software that covers it, and LetCompliance asks before anything is sent.
- It creates your records, or connects to a spreadsheet
- It creates them, from the rent and expenses you record, a photographed receipt or an imported bank statement.
- It works with your update periods
- Standard quarters from 6 April or calendar quarters from 1 April, chosen before your first update.
- It works with your agent, if you have one
- Not as agent software: LetCompliance is listed for individuals, so you send your own updates. An accountant can work from your quarterly export or a read-only link, or send the updates from their own agent software.
- It includes HMRC Assist
- No. HMRC Assist gives feedback on your submissions from HMRC’s own data, and LetCompliance’s listing shows it as not included.
The checks are from GOV.UK’s Choose the right software for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (opens in a new tab) and the answers from LetCompliance’s listing (opens in a new tab), both read on 19 October 2026. HMRC does not recommend any one product, so to set them side by side, landlord tax software compared weighs prices and what each covers.
Landlords filing for themselves
GOV.UK lists LetCompliance as individual software for UK property income. That decides who it suits today.
It suits you if
- You let property in the UK in your own name, alone or jointly.
- Your qualifying income was over £50,000 on your 2024 to 2025 return, so Making Tax Digital applies to you now.
- It will be over £30,000 on your 2025 to 2026 return, so it applies to you from 6 April 2027.
Look elsewhere if
- You’re a letting agent filing for clients. Filing for someone else is HMRC’s agent route, which LetCompliance hasn’t built.
- You also have self-employment or foreign property income. The listing doesn’t cover those, so you would need software that does.
Own a property jointly? Each owner reports their own share on their own return, so only your share goes on yours. Enter the full rent and costs, set your share on the property, and LetCompliance reports your share. The guide to jointly owned property and Form 17 covers married couples and civil partners.
Using a letting agent does not move Making Tax Digital off you: the obligation stays yours, and the agent’s fee is an expense that does not come off your qualifying income. Making Tax Digital if you use a letting agent goes through who sends what.
The next deadline
Next quarterly update due
That is in 4 days if you already use Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. It covers 6 April to 5 October 2026: every update runs from the start of the tax year, not just the last three months.
Not sure which band you are in? The Making Tax Digital checker gives your own start date and deadlines.
- Must use it now
- Over £50,000 of qualifying income on the 2024 to 2025 return
- From 6 April 2027
- Over £30,000 on the 2025 to 2026 return
What sending your own updates costs, three ways
An agent on full management charges 12% to 21.6% of the rent on agents’ own price lists, VAT included, and Making Tax Digital is still yours. A spreadsheet needs bridging software linked to it to send anything; the spreadsheet or software comparison weighs when one is enough. LetCompliance is from £7.99 a month, every update included.
An agent on full management
- What it costs
- 12% to 21.6% of the rent
- Who sends the updates
- You, or an accountant on agent software
- The tax return
- You, or your accountant
A spreadsheet
- What it costs
- Your time, plus bridging software
- Who sends the updates
- The bridging software linked to it
- The tax return
- Software that can send it
LetCompliance
- What it costs
- From £7.99 a month
- Who sends the updates
- You check each one and send it
- The tax return
- Sent from here when UK property is the only income you add
Which recognised products send the tax return as well as the updates? HMRC’s list, counted goes through the products for UK property income one by one.
What landlords ask about HMRC recognition
Straight answers on what the listing covers and who it suits.
Still have a question?
What does “recognised by HMRC” mean?
LetCompliance is on GOV.UK’s list of software that works with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, and HMRC has given it permission to show its recognition mark (reference D3V9KL). The listing covers quarterly updates and the tax return for UK property income. It is about the Making Tax Digital software, not the rest of the product.
Is LetCompliance recognised by HMRC?
Yes. Since 18 September 2026 LetCompliance has been on GOV.UK’s list of software that works with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, as software for individuals with UK property income. It keeps your digital records, sends your quarterly updates and, when UK property is the only income you need to add yourself and you have no reliefs or charges to add, submits your tax return.
How do I check if software is recognised by HMRC?
Look it up in GOV.UK’s software finder, “Find software that works with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax”. It opens without signing in, lists the recognised products and shows, for each one, which income and which submissions it covers as ready now, in development or not included. LetCompliance’s page there is linked above, beside HMRC’s mark.
Is “MTD compatible” software the same as HMRC recognised software?
GOV.UK calls the products on its list software that works with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, and every one of them is recognised by HMRC, so the list is the test rather than the words on a product’s own site. HMRC’s mark, “MTD ready, recognised by HMRC”, is shown with the reference HMRC gives for it; LetCompliance’s is D3V9KL.
Do I have to use Making Tax Digital yet?
You do if your qualifying income was over £50,000 on your 2024 to 2025 tax return. From 6 April 2027 the line is £30,000 (on the 2025 to 2026 return), and from 6 April 2028 it is £20,000. Qualifying income is rent plus any self-employment turnover, before expenses.
I own a property with someone else. Does it split the rent?
No. Each owner reports their own share on their own return, so only your share goes on yours. Enter the full rent and costs and set your share on the property, and LetCompliance reports your share. If you already enter only your share, leave it at 100%.
Can my letting agent file for me through it?
No. LetCompliance is listed as individual software, so a connection only ever reaches the signed-in person’s own tax record. Filing for a client is HMRC’s agent route, which needs an Agent Services Account and the client’s authorisation, and LetCompliance hasn’t built it.
What if I also have self-employment or foreign property income?
The listing doesn’t cover them: self-employment and foreign property income are not included, and UK interest and dividends are in development. For that income you would need software that covers it. GOV.UK lets you use more than one product, one for each submission, so your UK property updates can still go from LetCompliance.
Can I switch to LetCompliance part-way through the tax year?
Yes. Once your HMRC account is connected, LetCompliance asks HMRC what it already holds for the tax year, so a quarter sent with other software shows as sent. Updates are running totals, so the next one you send from here covers the whole year so far.
Does HMRC recommend any MTD software?
No. GOV.UK says HMRC does not recommend any product or software provider. It asks you to check that a product covers your income sources, sends your quarterly updates and your tax return, lets you report your other income and works with your update periods; this page answers those checks for LetCompliance.
How much does it cost?
Making Tax Digital is on every paid plan, with the income and expense records, receipt scanning, bank statement import and the mileage log behind it, and no charge for each submission. Single is £7.99 a month for one property, Solo £14.99 for up to 3 and Portfolio £19 for up to 10. Making Tax Digital starts when you choose a plan; it is not part of the 3-day trial. The free plan is £0 for one property and keeps rent tracked on the tenancy with receipts, the tenant portal with repairs, the certificate dates with email reminders and the 0 to 100 compliance score. Making Tax Digital and Direct Debit collection need Single.
