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MTD deadline & penalty checker

Check the qualifying-income threshold, see the next quarterly deadline, and understand what happens if it is missed.

Your answers stay in this request. We do not save eligibility or exemption information.

Check one tax-return year

Use the qualifying income for the selected reference return: your personal self-employment and UK property income before expenses. Do not include PAYE salary, dividends, pensions, savings interest or income from a partnership. If a special calculation or exemption may apply, choose it below rather than guessing.

1. What are you checking?

Sole trader Landlord Both

This checker covers personal sole-trade and UK property income only.

2. Which submitted return are you checking?

3. Combined qualifying income Gross personal sole-trade and property income only. We never ask for a National Insurance number.

Self Assessment status

Selected return submitted Existing taxpayer; selected future return not filed yet Registered, but no return submitted yet Not registered Not sure

Does a special circumstance apply? Choose a precise return item or circumstance. Application-based answers remain subject to HMRC approval. No health, disability or religious details are collected.

Official sources · rules checked 6 August 2026

MTD deadline & penalty checker

Check one tax-return year

Am I mandated?

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What if I miss it?

First mandated-year deadlines

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Check one tax-return year

Am I mandated?

What is next?

What if I miss it?

First mandated-year deadlines

Email all five first-year deadline reminders

What to do now