
Making Tax Digital Receipts: A Four-Part Map for Sole Traders
Making Tax Digital separates the transaction record, retained evidence, quarterly update and annual return. Here is what UK sole traders record, keep and send.

Making Tax Digital separates the transaction record, retained evidence, quarterly update and annual return. Here is what UK sole traders record, keep and send.

Most freelancers have the receipts. What they are missing is the monthly routine that turns them into records. A step-by-step closeout ritual that drains every source once a month so tax season is a filing exercise, not a search.

The IRS does not ask whether you have a receipt. It asks what your record proves. Here is what business expense documentation must show, how long it must survive, and whether a phone photo counts.
Stop losing deductions to crumpled receipts. These five scanning habits keep your expense records organized year-round so tax season is painless.