What MTD software cost from July to September 2026

Starting prices for landlords and sole traders

Some plans charge by the property or the tenancy. For those, the starting price is the plan’s price for the properties it includes, so a larger portfolio pays more and the figure is a lower bound rather than a quote. A cheapest paid plan can also cover only part of what Making Tax Digital needs, such as quarterly updates without the tax return, so these figures sit under the cost of a complete setup rather than measuring it.

How starting prices were spread

The median gives the middle of the market, but it helps to see how many products started in each price range. This counts every product with a paid plan, whichever group it suits.

Price and plan changes recorded in the quarter

Our checks recorded one price change and no plan changes during the quarter.

The price changes page keeps every change we have recorded, with the date the old price was last seen and the provider pages that show the new one.

What moved this quarter

For each plan whose price moved during the quarter, we give the price before and after, the last day we saw the old price, the day our check recorded the new one and the provider page we read it on. A provider can change a price at any point between those two days, so the recorded date is when we found the change rather than when it took effect.

• Xero’s figures are in pounds a month, regular price, excluding VAT. Xero's own pricing update page dates this change to September 2026.

The price moves CSV for this quarter holds the same rows under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. If you quote a move, we suggest citing it like this: Acrenvo, “MTD software price report: July to September 2026”, price moves, https://acrenvo.com/reports/mtd-software-prices-2026-q3#price-moves, data as of 3 October 2026, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Products that joined or left HMRC’s list data

HMRC publishes the data behind its software finder as a public file. During the quarter, 49 products first appeared in that file and 2 left it. These are the dates a product appeared in or left the file, not the dates HMRC approved anything.

Avona joined on 3 July 2026, left on 3 July 2026 and joined again on 23 July 2026. It is counted each time it joined, so it appears twice among the 49 products that joined.

These dates come from HMRC’s income-tax-software-choices-frontend repository, which HMRC publishes under the Apache License 2.0, read at commit 2c9b5eae6034. HMRC did not prepare this report and does not endorse Acrenvo or any product in it. The HMRC list timeline shows every product’s dates.

How the figures were worked out

Download the figures

The CSV file for this report holds every figure in the tables and charts on this page, one to a row, each with the quarter and the date the figures were frozen. Money is in pounds with two decimal places. It does not hold the names and dates in the lists of products that joined or left HMRC’s list data, which are on this page only. Each price move, with the date we recorded it and the page we read, is in the price moves CSV. The products, plans and prices behind it are in the open data API. You are welcome to reuse the figures under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, as long as you credit Acrenvo with a link to this page.

How to cite this page

If you use this record in an article, a report or your own research, we suggest citing it like this, so that a reader can find the same data and see which date it describes.

Acrenvo, “MTD software price report: July to September 2026”, https://acrenvo.com/reports/mtd-software-prices-2026-q3, data as of 3 October 2026, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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@misc{acrenvo-reports-mtd-software-prices-2026-q3-2026,
  author = {{Acrenvo}},
  title = {{MTD software price report: July to September 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://acrenvo.com/reports/mtd-software-prices-2026-q3},
  urldate = {2026-10-03},
  note = {Data as of 3 October 2026, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)}
}