HMRC urges VAT-registered businesses to sign up for Making Tax Digital for VAT before 1 April 2022.

As of December 2021, nearly 1.6 million taxpayers had joined Making Tax Digital for VAT with more than 11 million returns successfully submitted. Around a third of VAT-registered businesses with taxable turnover below £85,000 have voluntarily signed up to Making Tax Digital for VAT ahead of April 2022, and thousands more are signing up each week.

In July 2020, it was announced that all VAT-registered businesses must file digitally through Making Tax Digital from April 2022, regardless of turnover. HMRC is now reminding businesses below the £85,000 threshold of the steps which they need to take to be ready.

 

To sign up to Making Tax Digital VAT, businesses, or an agent on a businesses’ behalf, need to:

  1. visit GOV.UK and choose Making Tax Digital-compatible software
  2. keep digital records starting from 1 April 2022 or the beginning of their VAT period
  3. sign up and submit their VAT Return through Making Tax Digital