Making Tax Digital Support for Accountants

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax brings a significant increase in administrative demand for accountancy practices. Lower-value landlord and sole-trader clients in particular may need hands-on help with software setup and quarterly submissions that is not cost-effective to deliver in-house at standard billing rates. With three MTD waves arriving in April 2026, 2027 and 2028, that demand only grows.

• Client MTD eligibility assessments
• Compatible software selection and setup
• Existing records migration and bookkeeping cleanup
• Quarterly update preparation and submission support
• White-labelled client education materials
• Overflow quarterly update administration during peak periods

We work directly with your clients under your firm’s branding, or handle the work behind the scenes while you remain the client-facing contact. We provide structured handover packs, and our work integrates with your existing year-end process so nothing is duplicated and your clients see a seamless service.

Use us as a permanent extension of your team or purely for overflow around quarterly deadlines and year-end. We scale up for peak periods and step back when you don’t need us, so you only pay for the capacity you use.

There’s no fixed package — the right arrangement depends on your client mix and where the workload actually falls:

• Ongoing per-client support for the sole traders and landlords whose fee level doesn’t justify hands-on quarterly work in-house at your standard rates — we handle their onboarding and quarterly updates continuously.
• Peak-period overflow around the four quarterly deadlines and year-end, for practices that can manage the workload most of the year but need extra hands when everything lands at once.
• One-off migration projects — moving a batch of clients off spreadsheets onto compatible software ahead of their MTD start date, then handing them back to your team to run.

We agree pricing per engagement based on client volume and the work involved, rather than a one-size-fits-all rate — call to talk through what fits your practice.

This works best for practices that want to keep offering MTD-affected clients a full service without pulling qualified staff off higher-value advisory work. It’s not a fit if you want to retrain and run everything in-house — in that case, our overview of what MTD means for practices is the better starting point.

What MTD means for your practice →

Call 0114 327 1480 or email shjenquiry@msc-g.com to talk through your client base and capacity needs.

Contact us to discuss your firm’s needs →