How does Landlord Vision compare with our Making Tax Digital service?

Landlord Vision is landlord software you use yourself, from £7.99 a month plus VAT billed yearly on 15 October 2026. Our Landlord Tax plan will keep your books. Coming later. Not available yet: starts once our HMRC registrations are complete.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD) means keeping digital records, sending HMRC four quarterly updates a year and filing a tax return. Landlord Vision is property management and accounting software that lets you do that yourself, with a lot of letting tools besides. Our service does the MTD work for you from your bank feed or records, and you check and confirm every figure before anything is sent to HMRC. Our tax plans start once our HMRC registrations are complete. Until then you can join the waitlist, and no payment is taken.

Prices compared

Each price below was checked on the provider's own website on 15 October 2026. Our prices include VAT. Landlord Vision lists its prices plus VAT, so the last column adds 20%. It counts tenancies, not properties.

Landlord Vision shows the Starter price as 60% off a list price of £19.97 a month plus VAT, with a 2-year price guarantee. It also showed 20% off the first year of Standard and above for sign-ups by 30 October 2026. It offers a 2-week free trial and a free onboarding call.

What each one does

When Landlord Vision is the better choice

• You are happy to do the bookkeeping yourself. On yearly billing, Starter costs less than a managed service.
• You want full letting software. Tenant portal, e-signatures, Right to Rent tracking and mortgage and loan records go well beyond MTD.
• You have more than 4 properties, or some are in a limited company. Our plans cover 1 to 4 properties in England, owned personally.
• You have lets outside England or abroad, or self-employed income too. Its GOV.UK finder entry covers self-employment, UK and foreign property.
• You need to start now. Our tax plans are not open yet.

When our service may suit you better

• You would rather not do the bookkeeping. Your transactions are sorted for you, and your part is to check and confirm the figures.
• You want MTD done and a few simple landlord tools. The landlord tax plans come with a compliance calendar for each property (gas, EICR, EPC, deposit, Right to Rent, alarms and your PRS Database entry), with reminder emails before each date.
• You want a fixed price including VAT. It is a fixed monthly price, and you can cancel online.

What this means for you

If your rent and any self-employed turnover before expenses came to more than £30,000 in 2025-26, MTD starts for you on 6 April 2027. Your first quarterly update covers 6 April to 5 July 2027 and is due by 7 August 2027. Late quarterly updates can earn penalty points, and 4 points means a £200 penalty. At the Budget on 28 October 2026 the government said people who must join in April 2027 will get no penalty points for late 2027-28 quarterly updates, though the updates must still be sent. For you, the earliest a late update can earn a point is 7 August 2028.

Whichever route you choose, mortgage interest and other finance costs must be kept as a separate digital record and sent separately in each update.

On cost, Landlord Vision Starter works out at £115.06 a year including VAT on yearly billing. Our Landlord Tax plan costs £150 a year for 1 to 2 properties, or £200 for 3 to 4. If you will keep the records yourself, Landlord Vision is cheaper. The extra for a managed service buys back the time you would spend on the books.

Steps to choose between them

1. Use the free MTD check to see whether and when MTD starts for you.
2. Count your properties and tenancies, and note any held in a company or outside England.
3. List the letting tools you actually use: tenant portal, e-signatures, Right to Rent checks.
4. Decide whether you want to keep the records yourself or have them kept for you.
5. If you want to do it yourself, try Landlord Vision's 2-week free trial with one real quarter of rent and costs.
6. If you would rather hand the work over, see the landlord plans and join the waitlist. No payment is taken.