What is Making Tax Digital for Income Tax?
Digital record keeping plus four quarterly updates to HMRC during the year, instead of one annual return at the end of it.
Last checked 12/09/2026.
It is a change to how you report, not to what you owe. The tax rules are identical. What changes is that you keep your records digitally and send HMRC a summary four times a year rather than once.
The quarterly updates are cumulative totals of income and expenses. They are not four tax bills and nothing is paid on them. At the end of the year you still make a final declaration that pulls everything together, and that is what the tax is calculated on.
Digital records means the underlying figures have to be kept in software, not on paper or in a notebook. Individual transactions, dated, with a category.
JoltMile keeps exactly that: every shift and every expense, dated, categorised, exportable. It does not submit to HMRC, so you will still need compatible software or an accountant for the filing itself.
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