How do I sign up for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax as an accidental landlord?

How do I sign up for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax as an accidental landlord? Your salary doesn't count, only rent and any self-employed turnover. If those came to more than £30,000 before expenses in 2025-26, you start Making Tax Digital on 6 April 2027 and sign up with your Self Assessment sign-in. No. Pay from an employer, dividends and pensions do not count. Only rent and any self-employed turnover, before expenses, make up your qualifying income. Not yet. GOV.UK says you must be registered for Self Assessment and have sent a tax return in the last 2 years before you can sign up. Register first, file your first return, and check the threshold from there. GOV.UK says that if your accounting period is shorter than 12 months and you have property income, you must annualise it yourself, which means scaling it up to a full year. Our reading is that a let that started part-way through the year counts too, so six months at £2,600 a month would count as £31,200. Read the full answer, with every source, at rightotax.co.uk.