- How long to keep receipts as a sole trader
How long a UK sole trader should keep receipts, mileage logs, and the digital copies that replace a shoebox.
- What a sole trader can claim: tools, fuel, phone, subsistence
A plain list of common sole trader expenses — tools, fuel, phone, and meals — and what this app will not decide for you.
- Mileage at 55p, and the log HMRC expects
The 2026/27 simplified mileage rate is 55p for the first 10,000 business miles and 25p after that. Here is the log to keep.
- CIS: materials on the invoice versus labour
Why CIS subcontractors should keep materials separate from labour, without pretending this app calculates the deduction.
- What to send your bookkeeper before 31 January
The file a sole trader should hand a bookkeeper before the 31 January Self Assessment deadline.
- What the 7 November and 7 February MTD updates actually are
Making Tax Digital quarterly updates are category totals filed in recognised software. A receipt app does not file them.
- Self Assessment receipts: a one-evening tidy
How to turn a camera roll of receipts into a file before the 31 January deadline.
- Records your accountant can file from
The difference between a receipt shoebox and software that files to HMRC.