Free · About 3 minutes · For UK online sellers

Know exactly where you stand with HMRC.

Answer seven quick questions about your sales. Get a personal timeline of every rule that applies to you — Self Assessment, platform reporting, Making Tax Digital and VAT — with the dates that matter.

Start the check Just the VAT check
Example result: Etsy + own-site seller Sole trader
Self AssessmentApplies now
Platform reportingEtsy reports you
Making Tax DigitalFrom 6 Apr 2027
VAT (£90,000)46% of threshold
The point most sellers miss

Making Tax Digital counts your sales, not your profit.

£35,000 of sales on £5,000 of profit still puts a sole trader into Making Tax Digital from 6 April 2027. Low-margin sellers are often in sooner than they think.

Check my start date

Six rules, one timeline

The check tells you which of these apply to you, which are coming, and which you can ignore.

£1,000

Trading allowance

Whether your sales are small enough that you don't need to tell HMRC at all.

31 January

Self Assessment

Whether you need to register and file, and your next return and payment dates.

30 sales / €2,000

Platform reporting

Which marketplaces send your sales figures to HMRC, and what that does and doesn't mean.

2026 · 2027 · 2028

Making Tax Digital

Your start date, when to sign up, and your first quarterly update deadline.

£90,000

VAT registration

How close your last 12 months are to the threshold. For exact dates, run the VAT check.

Signposted

Selling to the EU

A flag if EU orders bring extra rules, with the official guidance to read next.

How it works

Answer seven questions

How you trade, what you sold, where you sell. Rough figures are fine.

Get your timeline

What applies now, what's coming and the next dates, each linked to GOV.UK.

Add the dates to your calendar

One tap saves them to your calendar, with a reminder two weeks before each.

What we offer

The checks tell you where you stand. When you're ready to act on it, there are three ways we can help — use as much or as little as you like.

Free guides

Plain-English explainers for online sellers — registering for Self Assessment, getting ready for Making Tax Digital, what platform reporting means. Each linked to the GOV.UK rule behind it.

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Recommended software

A short list of bookkeeping and Making Tax Digital tools that work for online sellers, matched to your stage — so you don't have to compare twenty apps yourself.

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Speak to an accountant or bookkeeper

When you'd rather hand it over — or you're near VAT, starting Making Tax Digital, or thinking about a limited company — a free first call with someone who works with online sellers.

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