{"value":{"id":1908275,"askingMemberId":5101,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2026-05-20T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2026-06-01T00:00:00","uin":"3619","questionText":"To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to an average self-employed person of the reduction in the self-reporting threshold in the rollout of Making Tax Digital to £20,000 by 2028.","answeringBodyId":14,"answeringBodyName":"Treasury","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5282,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2026-06-03T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Costs will differ from business to business and are influenced by factors including size and complexity of the business, degree of digital capability and cost and functionality of chosen software.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has published assessment of the potential impact of MTD for Income Tax on taxpayers joining from April 2028, and it is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href=\"http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-tax-digital-for-income-tax-self-assessment-reducing-the-mandation-threshold-from-30000-to-20000-from-april-2028/reduction-of-the-mandation-threshold-from-30000-to-20000-from-april-2028\" target=\"_blank\">www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-tax-digital-for-income-tax-self-assessment-reducing-the-mandation-threshold-from-30000-to-20000-from-april-2028/reduction-of-the-mandation-threshold-from-30000-to-20000-from-april-2028</a></p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Taxation: Electronic Government","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1908275","method":"GET"}]}