HMRC Making Tax Digital VAT
File your VAT return from the same records you invoice from
Making Tax Digital VAT software for sole traders and small trade firms, built into the job app: connect to Government Gateway, see your obligations, and file the return through a guided nine-step wizard with HMRC's fraud-prevention headers handled for you.
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If you are VAT-registered you must keep digital records and file through MTD-compatible software. TradeYoke is that software: your invoices and payments are already digital records on a ledger, so the VAT return is a projection of them. Connect to HMRC with your Government Gateway login, see the periods HMRC expects, review the nine boxes, submit, and read back the receipt. Liabilities and payments from HMRC show in the same place, and your Government Gateway connection is kept encrypted, never in plain text.
What it does
HMRC Making Tax Digital VAT in TradeYoke
Government Gateway connection
OAuth with HMRC; tokens refreshed automatically and kept encrypted at rest; disconnect any time.
Obligations
The open and fulfilled VAT periods HMRC holds for you, with due dates.
Guided nine-step filing
Period, figures, adjustments, declaration, submit, receipt — one step at a time.
Read-back
After submitting, the return is fetched from HMRC and shown against what was sent.
Liabilities and payments
What HMRC says you owe and what they have received, from their records.
Fraud-prevention headers
The device and session headers HMRC requires are collected and sent for you on every call.
The real thing
As it looks today
A real screen from the product, not a mock-up. The same screen is on the phone app.
Making Tax Digital
VAT filed from the same records
On the road
The figures are already there
No separate spreadsheet — VAT is worked out from the same invoices and expenses.
The records behind the return 
Evening
A guided wizard, not a spreadsheet
Nine steps, HMRC's own obligations, submitted straight from TradeYoke.
Nothing re-typed for the accountant
More of it, as it looks today
The details
Also worth knowing
- Test and liveConnect to HMRC's sandbox first to see the flow end to end, then live.
- Adjustments recordedManual adjustments to boxes are recorded with a reason on the filing.
- Under Accounting & taxLives beside bookkeeping sync in one settings tab.
- Your Government Gateway sign-in is kept encryptedThe connection details TradeYoke keeps for HMRC are stored encrypted, never in plain text.
See it working
What you get, on the real screens
HMRC Making Tax DigitalPremium and above · £19.99/month
File your VAT return with HMRC, from TradeYoke
Making Tax Digital for VAT, built in: see what's due, let TradeYoke work out the nine boxes from your invoices, check them and send them to HMRC — with the receipt kept.
- Your open and filed VAT periods at a glance
- The nine boxes worked out from your own invoices
- A step-by-step filing, checked before anything is sent
- The HMRC receipt kept for every return
- What you owe, what you've paid and any penalties in one place
Questions
Asked about hmrc making tax digital vat
Is TradeYoke MTD-compatible software?
It implements HMRC's MTD for VAT APIs — obligations, submit, retrieve, liabilities and payments — with the required fraud-prevention headers.
What about MTD for Income Tax?
Not yet. VAT is live; Income Tax Self Assessment is on the roadmap ahead of its April 2026 phase-in for £50k+ turnover.
Do I still need an accountant?
That is your call. Many customers file VAT themselves from TradeYoke and hand the accountant the year-end file.
Is my HMRC connection stored securely?
Yes. The Government Gateway connection details TradeYoke keeps are stored encrypted, never in plain text.
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