The Renters' Rights Act hits every landlord. Is yours sorted?
Run a free, two-minute compliance check on your property. See exactly where you are exposed and how to fix it. When the time comes, LetSort handles your Making Tax Digital filings too.
Built for the 83% of landlords who own 1–4 properties and currently track everything in spreadsheets.
Portfolio overview3 of 4 compliant
14 Elm Road, Brighton
Q1 filed · Gas cert valid
Flat 2, 89 Queen St
Q1 filed · EICR due in 18 days
7 Canal Walk, Leeds
Q1 overdue · Written statement missing
Next deadline
7 August 2026
Q1 submission to HMRC
Latest submission
✓Q4 accepted by HMRC
Renters' Rights Act in force since 1 May 2026 · RRA fines up to £40,000 · MTD ITSA live since 6 April 2026 · First quarterly deadline: 7 August 2026
The problem
Two new laws hit at once. Neither one is optional.
For the first time, UK landlords face mandatory digital tax reporting and sweeping tenancy regulation changes in the same month. Miss either one, and the fines stack up fast.
Making Tax Digital
Since April 2026, landlords earning over £50,000 have had to file quarterly digital reports to HMRC. No more annual Self Assessment only. HMRC has waived late-filing penalties for 2026-27, but the updates are still mandatory and late payment still carries interest and penalties.
780ksole traders and landlords affected in Phase 1
Renters' Rights Act
Section 21 is abolished. All tenancies are now periodic. New rules govern rent increases, pet requests, eviction grounds, rent in advance, and rental bidding. Every obligation carries fines, up to £40,000 for serious breaches.
2.8mlandlords must comply from day one
One dashboard. Both laws. Sorted.
LetSort handles the compliance bits that FreeAgent and Landlord Studio don't, and works alongside the tools you already use.
Submit directly to HMRC
Quarterly cumulative reports filed via the MTD API. Income, expenses, and mortgage interest, all mapped to the right SA105 boxes.
MTD ITSA
Generate compliant documents
Written Statements, Section 13 rent notices, Section 8 possession forms, all pre-filled and legally correct.
Renters' Rights
Hazard response tracking
Log a hazard and the clock starts, with timestamped photo evidence built in. Ready for Awaab's Law when it reaches the private rented sector.
Renters' Rights
Agent statement parsing
Upload your letting agent's PDF statement. We extract the gross rent, fees, and expenses HMRC actually needs, no more guessing.
MTD ITSA
Fine exposure dashboard
See your total penalty risk across every property at a glance. Expired gas cert? Missing written statement? You'll know before the council does.
Both
Mobile inspection app
Photograph property conditions with GPS and timestamp data that holds up as legal evidence. Run checklists offline during visits.
Both
Up and running in minutes
1
Add your properties
Enter your property details, tenants, and ownership splits. Takes about 5 minutes per property.
2
Connect your bank
Open Banking pulls in your rental income and expenses automatically. Or upload agent PDFs if you prefer.
3
Stay compliant
LetSort files your MTD quarterly reports, tracks every RRA obligation, and alerts you before anything goes wrong.
Pricing
Less than a penalty point costs.
A single late MTD filing costs £200. A single RRA breach starts at £4,000. LetSort costs less per month than one mistake.
For MTD software HMRC never says “approved”, only “recognised”, and it does not recommend any product. It scrapped its browsable list in July 2025 for a personalised finder that returned 100 recognised products for a landlord when we ran it, 28 of them free. Here is how to check any product yourself.
HMRC moved version 7.0 of its Individual Losses API to production on 16 June 2026, and version 6.0 has rejected any tax year after 2025-26 since January. Two separate resources became one, with three endpoints. A landlord never sees it; their software either kept up or it did not.
Every MTD filing sends HMRC a description of the machine that made it: your browser, screen size, time zone, IP and connection port. By law. Here are the fourteen headers we send, the two we do not, and the one that made us build a dedicated server to collect it.
Every guide stops at “click connect and your software does the rest”. Here is the rest: six API calls, eleven mandatory surveillance headers about your own machine, a four-hour token, and the moment HMRC decides whether to trust you.
One calendar for both regimes. Which duties are real today, which are not in force yet, and which quietly stopped existing on 1 May 2026. Most landlord calendars you will find online contain at least one duty that no longer exists.
Much of the internet says mortgage interest is not reported quarterly under Making Tax Digital. HMRC’s own Update Notice says it is. Put it in the wrong box and HMRC deducts it in full and gives you no relief, and the figures still look plausible.
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