Technology

The January MTD Reckoning: Eight Weeks to Rescue a Wobbly Digital Tax Set-Up

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax has been live since April 2026, and the first serious filing window under the new rules is now weeks away. Accountants are seeing the same avoidable failures in software set-up and digital records — here is a week-by-week plan to fix them before the deadline.

Nov 8, 2026

The Quiet Automation Dividend: Seven Unglamorous AI Wins UK SMEs Are Banking in 2026

Forget the boardroom slideware. The AI tools actually earning their keep in UK small and medium-sized firms in 2026 are modest, cheap and deeply unexciting — invoice chasing, rota planning, customer triage. Here are seven that pay back, with the implementation reality and a simple readiness test for each.

Nov 7, 2026