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What MTD software costs over one and two years
A monthly price is easy to compare, but what you will feel is the total over the time you use the software. Choose a product and one of its plans to see what it costs over 12 and 24 months at its regular price, on the VAT basis the provider gives.
The 46 products we compare are listed from A to Z. Your choice stays in your browser.
AbraTax, Individual
- Each month
- £5
- Over 12 months
- £60
- Over 24 months
- £120
At the regular price, plus VAT.
This total is the monthly price times the months. The provider also bills by the year, and its yearly price, in its notes below, can differ from it.
What the provider says about this plan
- £5 a month, or £50 a year (about £4.17 a month) on the annual option
- Excluding VAT
- One person, covering self-employment, UK property and foreign property, other income on the tax return, quarterly updates and the annual tax return
- Your first return is free and no card is needed to start
We checked this price on 2 November 2026. The AbraTax page has the rest of what we found about it.
How the totals are worked out
Where a provider gives a plan’s price for a year, the 12 month total is that yearly price and the 24 month total is twice it. Where the price is for each quarterly update, we count four updates a year. Every other total is the plan’s regular monthly price multiplied by 12 or 24, and if the provider also bills that plan by the year, a short line beside the result says its yearly price can differ.
Prices are shown the way each provider states them: plus VAT, including VAT, with no VAT charged, or with nothing said about VAT. We do not add VAT or take it away. If you are not VAT-registered, a price given plus VAT will cost you the standard rate of 20% on top.
Introductory offers, discounts and free trials are left out on purpose. They usually end within the first year, and a total over 24 months built on them would make a plan look cheaper than it will be once the offer runs out. Any offer the provider mentions still appears in its notes on the plan.
When a total is a lower bound, or missing
Some plans charge for each property, unit or tenancy beyond the number included. For those, the figures assume you stay within what the plan includes, so they are the least the plan can cost, and each one starts with “from”.
A few plans have no total at all. A plan that is free until a date or the end of a tax year, with no published price for afterwards, would show a misleading total of nothing over 24 months. A plan that is free to hold but charges for each submission depends on how many you send. A plan priced on request has no figure to multiply. And where a plan’s own notes say that MTD needs an extra part that costs more, or that the plan is free only until a date, its price on its own would not be what you pay. In each of these cases we say why instead of giving a figure.
Where the prices come from
Every price comes from the provider’s own pricing page, and each plan shows the day we checked it. We checked these prices between 12 September and 3 November 2026. Each product page links to its provider’s site, and the page on how comparisons work explains how we check them. The order is alphabetical, and nothing here is paid for.
A total cost is only one part of the choice. The software selector asks about how you let and earn, and the comparison sets the products side by side. If you want to know how a plan’s price sits against the rest, our price report for July to September 2026 gives the median and cheapest paid starting prices that quarter.