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TapTax

About TapTax

Welcome to
TapTax.

TapTax is the Making Tax Digital app for UK sole traders and landlords. TapTax is HMRC-recognised. We built it so keeping your records, knowing what you owe and filing to HMRC takes a tap, not a weekend.

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  • HMRC-recognised
  • Bank-level security
  • No card required
The TapTax dashboard with the next HMRC deadline and a live tax estimate
Quarterly filing on the TapTax app

Vision

TapTax was founded by Solomon Amos, who spent years in tax technology and product engineering watching ordinary people overpay HMRC or miss deadlines, because the tools on offer were built for accountants, not for them.

We believe a sole trader should not have to choose between doing their tax properly and getting on with their work. They deserve more than a spreadsheet they dread, a shoebox of receipts every January, or a bill for having someone type numbers into a form. They deserve software that keeps the record as they go, explains what it means, and files it when it is due.

Making Tax Digital changes the job. Tax stops being a once-a-year scramble and becomes four short updates through the year, kept in digital records. Done badly, that is four times the stress. Done well, it is a habit that takes minutes.

TapTax is how it gets done well. Import a bank statement, snap a receipt, send an invoice, and file your quarterly update straight to HMRC in a tap, from your phone, from £0.

Solomon AmosFounder & CEO

Our values

The principles behind how we build, decide and look after the people who trust us with their tax, every day.

Radical simplicity

“Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”

- Steve JobsBusinessWeek, 25 May 1998

Radical simplicity is the belief that the work of making tax easy is ours, not yours. Every screen should answer one question, every button should do one thing, and nobody should need an accounting qualification to know what happens when they tap it. When something is hard, we do the hard part so the person filing does not have to.

Simplicity is not leaving things out to look tidy, hiding what HMRC needs, or pretending tax has no edge cases. The rules stay complete underneath. The simple part is how they reach you.

  • HMRC-recognised for Making Tax Digital
  • Built in the UK for sole traders and landlords
  • Bank-level security
  • Free to start, no card needed
  • Your data is never sold

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

- Benjamin FranklinLetter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, 13 November 1789

The TapTax method

Tax will always be certain. The stress around it does not have to be. Getting it right comes from knowing which levers to pull, when to pull them, and how they work together.

This is our system.

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Principles

Tax is full of accepted wisdom that doesn't hold up. Here's what we've learned.

Once a year is not a system

Principle breakdown

The shoebox, the January weekend, the accountant's reminder. It feels normal because it is how tax has always been done, but a year of memory rebuilt in a weekend loses receipts, misses claims and turns a deadline into a crisis.

Making Tax Digital asks for four updates a year for a reason. Records kept as you go are more accurate, cheaper to fix and far less stressful. The quarterly rhythm is not a burden to manage. It is the system that makes the year end easy.

More features is not more help

Principle breakdown

Accounting software has spent decades adding features: ledgers, journals, reports most sole traders never open. Every one of them is another place to get lost, and another reason to put the job off.

Help is measured by what you no longer have to think about. TapTax does the few things a sole trader or landlord actually needs, does them properly, and keeps everything else out of the way.

Automation is not autopilot

Principle breakdown

AI can read a receipt, sort a transaction and fill in a return. That part is real, and TapTax uses it everywhere it saves you time. But a filing tool that acts without you is a filing tool you cannot trust.

TapTax prepares and you decide. Categories can be checked and changed, every figure is shown before it is sent, and nothing reaches HMRC until you have tapped to file it. The machine does the typing. You keep the say.

A number you cannot explain is not an answer

Principle breakdown

A tax estimate with no working is a guess with a pound sign in front of it. If you cannot see where a figure came from, you cannot spot when it is wrong, and you cannot plan around it.

Every number in TapTax traces back to the records behind it: which transactions, which category, which HMRC box. When you understand your tax, you stop being afraid of it.

Your data is not the product

Principle breakdown

Free apps often pay for themselves with the data their users hand over. For a tax app that data is your income, your spending and your access to HMRC, which is exactly what should never be for sale.

TapTax earns its keep from the plans people choose to pay for, not from what you tell it. Your financial data is encrypted, never sold, and used only to keep your tax in order. You can delete your account, and your data with it, whenever you like.

Approach

This is how TapTax works with you, from your first tap to your final declaration.

  1. Set up in minutes

    Sign up free, tell TapTax how you earn, and connect to HMRC by signing in on HMRC’s own website, so your HMRC password never reaches us. Import a bank statement and your records start full, not empty. By the end of setup you can see your deadlines and a first estimate of what you owe.

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  2. Record as you go

    Through the quarter, the small things take seconds: snap a receipt, send an invoice, log a trip, confirm a category. TapTax sorts each entry into the HMRC box it belongs in, so your records stay complete without a weekend of catching up.

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  3. File every quarter

    When an update is due, TapTax fills in your figures from your records and shows you exactly what HMRC will see. Check it, tap to file, and get HMRC’s confirmation. Each update covers the tax year to date, so nothing has to be rebuilt from scratch.

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  4. Finish the year with confidence

    After the fourth quarter, your final declaration brings in any other income, allowances and reliefs, and confirms your tax for the year before the 31 January deadline. Because the year was recorded as it happened, there are no surprises left to find.

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Each phase builds on the one before. Your records feed your estimate. Your estimate shapes each quarter. Your quarters make the year end a formality. That is the method.

Team

A small UK team obsessed with making tax simple, and the promises we hold ourselves to.

  • Solomon AmosFounder & CEOin

    Tax technology and product engineering, building TapTax in the UK

  • HMRC-recognisedMaking Tax Digital

    Built for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. TapTax is HMRC-recognised.

  • Bank-gradeSecurity

    256-bit AES encryption and SOC 2-aligned data security practices

  • UK-hostedYour data

    All your data stays in UK data centres - GDPR compliant by design

Where to find TapTax

TapTax is a trading name of HomePortfolio HQ Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 14708415. Registered office: 2 Buttercup Drive, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 9FW.

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