Using Provestor with Other Business Types

Provestor supports UK property income only. If you have other types of Making Tax Digital income — such as self-employment or foreign property — you can use Provestor for your UK property income alongside other MTD-compatible software for those income sources.

This multi-product approach is supported by HMRC and works well at year-end, when all your income sources need to be brought together for your final declaration.

What Provestor supports

Provestor handles:

  • UK property income (residential and commercial letting)
  • Jointly owned UK properties
  • Multiple UK properties
  • Cash basis accounting (for property businesses with turnover under £150,000)

Provestor does not currently support:

  • Self-employment income
  • Foreign property income (properties located outside the UK)
  • Accruals basis accounting

Making Tax Digital income types

Under Making Tax Digital, HMRC requires quarterly updates for three types of income:

  1. UK property income — rental income from properties located in the UK
  2. Self-employment income — trading income from sole trader activity
  3. Foreign property income — rental income from properties located outside the UK

Each income type requires quarterly updates to be sent to HMRC throughout the tax year. You can use different MTD-compatible software products for each income type, then bring everything together at year-end.

How to use Provestor with other income types

If you have multiple income types, you'll need MTD-compatible software for each one. Here's how it works:

Set up each business in the appropriate software:

  • Set up your UK property business in Provestor
  • Set up your self-employment or foreign property business in MTD-compatible software designed for that income type

During the year:

  • Use Provestor to send your quarterly updates for UK property income
  • Use your other software to send quarterly updates for self-employment or foreign property income

At year-end:

  • Finalise your self-employment or foreign property income in your other software
  • Finalise your UK property income in Provestor
  • Complete your final declaration in Provestor (see below)

Completing your final declaration

At year-end, Provestor brings all your income sources together in one place.

When you're ready to submit your final declaration, Provestor automatically retrieves your finalised self-employment or foreign property income from HMRC. This means you can see your complete tax position — property income, self-employment income, and any other income or reliefs — all in one place.

You'll complete and submit your full Self Assessment return through Provestor, even though some of your quarterly updates were sent through other software during the year.

This consolidation happens automatically. You don't need to manually transfer figures or submit separate returns.

What you'll need

To use this approach, you'll need:

  • Provestor for your UK property income
  • MTD-compatible software for self-employment or foreign property (if applicable)
  • All income sources signed up for Making Tax Digital through your HMRC Government Gateway account

Each software product connects to HMRC independently, but they all feed into the same tax record, which is why the year-end consolidation works seamlessly.

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