Webinar: MTD Accountability Club - November 2025 by AccountingWEB

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There are only around 100 working days until MTD for income tax becomes mandated for sole traders and landlords with qualifying income above £50,000 and many practices still have a lot to do to get themselves and their practices ready.

As we approach the holiday period and the busy season for self assessment, it’s important to understand what you need to do to be ready. Following on from our last session where we focused on how to get people on the pilot and what issues our guests had had with the pilot, we’re delighted to say that we have Craig Ogilvie, Director - Making Tax Digital at HMRC, joining us for this session.

Craig will give us an update on how the delivery of the MTD program is going as we approach the deadline. If you have a question you’d like to ask Craig or the panel, please complete our short survey (the link can be found below and here: https://ac4tzq03.paperform.co/).

There will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have during the session. We will also be joined by Lorraine Ellison, Chartered Management Accountant and Founder at Simply Additions Ltd, who will be sharing her experience of getting her practice ready and how she has been preparing clients.

AccountingWEB’s Jake Smith will be joined as always by Chris Downing from Sage.

Every month, the MTD Accountability Club tracks the progress of accountants and bookkeepers as they prepare for the launch of the government’s much-talked-about digitalisation of tax. Practitioners share the progress of their plans, while we focus on a key issue that might snag their progress this month.

The MTD Accountability Club is brought to you in association with Sage. If you would like to join the club and share your progress, please get in touch.

Take our survey here: https://ac4tzq03.paperform.co/

Presenters

Jake Smith

Head of Branded Content, AccountingWEB

AccountingWEB’s Head of Branded Content joined the team in July 2021 to work closely with vendors and clients to help deliver engaging, original content for AccountingWEB members.

Chris Downing

Director of Product Management for Accountants and Bookkeepers, Sage

Chris joined Sage having been a partner at a top 100 accountancy firm. He brings nearly 20 years of hands on experience and strategic insight of the profession, coupled with an infectious enthusiasm in the adoption of technology to improve business operations, maximise performance and have some fun on the way.

Craig Ogilvie

Director - Making Tax Digital, HMRC

Craig Ogilvie is a proud public servant with over 20 years' experience in Government. At the pandemic’s onset in March 2020, he helped deliver the UK Government furlough scheme as the Project Director of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). This is his proudest career achievement and his CJRS team, as part of the HMRC’s CV19 programme, won the APM’s Programme of the Year 2020 and a Civil Service award.

In October 2020, Craig joined the Cabinet Office for a challenging and exciting role, becoming Director responsible for many End of EU Transition Services. In April 2021, he re-joined HMRC to become the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) of Pensions, Payments and Debt Transformation Programmes within the new Transformation Group. Afterwards, he led HMRCs major Data Programmes as SRO for two years. Craig has led Making Tax Digital as Programme Director since October 2023.

Lorraine Ellison

Founder, Simply Additions Ltd

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