Engagement Letter – Personal Tax (Self Assessment and Making Tax Digital)

An engagement letter for individual clients covering Self Assessment returns, tax payments, PAYE coding and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.

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10pages
Guidance notes included
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Accountancy practice – client documents

Engagement Letter – Personal Tax (Self Assessment and Making Tax Digital)

About this document

What it’s for

A covering letter and schedules for preparing an individual’s Self Assessment tax return and dealing with their personal tax, including Making Tax Digital for Income Tax quarterly updates where the client is within its scope (self-employment and property income).

When to use it

  • Individual clients: employees with extra income, landlords, directors, pensioners, high earners
  • Self-employed clients whose business accounts are covered by a separate letter
  • When a client becomes subject to Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Period and scope
  2. Services we will provide
  3. Self Assessment – how it works
  4. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
  5. Your responsibilities
  6. Our responsibilities
  7. Services not included
  8. Authority to act with HMRC
  9. Our professional obligations
  10. Identity checks and money laundering
  11. Confidentiality and your information
  12. Fees and payment
  13. Our liability to you
  14. Changes in the law and to this engagement
  15. Ending the engagement
  16. How our agreement fits together

Also included

  • Fees
  • Timetable

How to complete it

  • Keep the consumer cancellation paragraph (Option A) for individuals who agree terms by email or away from your office
  • Tick the services the client has chosen in section 2 of Schedule 1
  • Choose the Making Tax Digital arrangement that applies
  • Send each spouse or civil partner their own letter

Key points to check

  • Making Tax Digital thresholds and dates – check gov.uk
  • The liability cap must be fair and reasonable for a consumer client

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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