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Two incomes, one deadline.

Download the landlord's guide to handling MTD with self-employment.

Find out how Making Tax Digital works when you have rental property and self-employment income, and why two specialist apps beat one compromise.

  • Calculate your combined qualifying income and know your start date

  • Understand why HMRC expects you to use more than one app

  • Avoid the mortgage, expense, and joint ownership mistakes generic tools cause

Expert-authored Making Tax Digital guide

What you’ll learn

If you have rental income and self-employment income, MTD gets complicated fast. Most apps handle one or the other, not both. This guide explains how HMRC designed the system to work, what your options actually are, and how to set things up without overcomplicating it.

ChapterTopic
You don't need one app to rule them allWhy forcing everything into one tool is the wrong approach — and what to do instead
Why mixed income makes MTD harderWhat goes wrong when self-employment apps try to handle property, and what HMRC says about using more than one product
If you're in scope, you must do MTD for everythingHow qualifying income works when you combine property and self-employment (with three real scenarios)
What actually goes wrong with generic toolsMortgages, capital vs. revenue, and the bread-and-butter mistakes that lead to wrong quarterly updates
How two apps work together in practiceQuarterly updates, year-end, and what happens when the data comes together in one final declaration
Why Provestor for your property incomeRecord keeping, mortgages, joint ownership, and letting agent statements — handled the way a landlord thinks about them
Setting up your two-app systemA step-by-step action plan to get both income streams MTD-ready before your first deadline

I spent weeks looking for one app that could handle my consultancy and my rental properties. This guide explained why that was never going to work, and the two-app setup took me an afternoon.

Tom Hadley, landlord and self-employed consultant
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Stop searching for one app that does everything. Get the guide and see exactly how HMRC expects mixed income to work under MTD, with real examples, clear calculations, and an action plan you can follow today.

  • Real scenarios covering property, self-employment, and PAYE combinations

  • Plain English explanations, not HMRC jargon

  • Written by property tax experts who handle mixed-income cases every day

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