IFA Digital Demos (MTD IT)

The IFA Digital Demos sponsored by Sage, Bright, QuickBooks and Xero, offers insight and demonstrations focused on helping you navigate Making Tax Digital (MTD) and embracing tools that make running a practice smoother and more efficient.

Each free half-hour session showcases practical ways technology can support compliance, streamline processes, and free up time for more valuable advisory work.

The demos explore:

  • How practices can best prepare clients for MTD and upcoming deadlines
  • The importance of joining MTD pilot testing and what can be learned from it
  • The role of automation and e-invoicing in improving efficiency and accuracy
  • How firms have approached software selection and implementation
  • The growing influence of AI, its potential benefits and risks, and key cybersecurity considerations

Blending real-world experience with practical demonstration, IFA Digital Demos give you clear, actionable insights into how digital tools can enhance compliance, support practice growth, and prepare firms for the next stages of MTD.
 

Intro session

Calum Fuller and Ermal Krutani (Xeinadin) on MTD and practice digitisation 

Register to view the intro session

Get ready for MTD for Income Tax by Xero

Delve into practical strategies for getting your practice ready and effectively bringing your clients along on this crucial journey. Xero is HMRC-recognised and trusted by millions, offering a range of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax plans to suit your clients' needs. 

The webinar covers:

  • Prepare practice: Discover how to ensure your accounting practice is fully geared up for MTD for IT.
  • Client onboarding: Learn effective methods to guide your sole trader and landlord clients through the upcoming changes.
  • Xero's seamless solution: Get another exclusive sneak peek at Xero's MTD for Income Tax filing solution, seeing firsthand how its effortless migration and seamless data capture tools will keep you and your clients compliant.

Register to view the Xero demo

Get MTD ready with Intuit QuickBooks full stack solution

Prepare your practice for MTD for IT with this demo of the Intuit QuickBooks MTD solution. In this session, our team will cover:

  • How to submit quarterly updates to HMRC
  • Multi-source income submissions
  • MTD client management for you practice

Register to view the QuickBooks demo

Discover smarter workflows with AutoEntry by Sage

Discover how AutoEntry and AccountsPrep can transform the way you manage Self Assessment and prepare for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax, coming in April 2026.

In just half an hour, you'll see how these tools help you:

  • Automate data entry to cut admin and reduce errors during Self Assessment season
  • Simplify year-end accounts prep with streamlined digital workflows
  • Segment and support clients based on digital readiness and compliance needs
  • Get MTD-ready without adding stress to your team

This is your chance to see exactly how AutoEntry and AccountsPrep work together to save time, reduce stress and keep your practice ahead of compliance changes.

Register to view the Sage demo

Introducing Bright’s MTD Solution 

An exclusive preview of Bright’s HMRC-recognised quarterly filing and annual submission tools designed to simplify MTD for ITSA compliance ahead of the 2026 rollout.

In this session, the Bright team will walk you through how BrightBooks (our bookkeeping solution) streamlines quarterly submissions to keep your records organised and HMRC-compliant, and explain how BrightTax ensures effortless, timely annual filing, making Bright your go-to partner for all things MTD.