Pocket guide · 2026/27
Tax Rates 2026/27 Pocket Guide
Every rate, allowance and threshold for the year on nine pages: income tax, National Insurance, dividends, corporation tax, VAT and capital gains.
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The factsheets we give clients, our guides for landlords, directors and sole traders, and the answers to common questions. Each sheet shows when it was checked.
Our stand at the Hillingdon Business Expo, June 2026.
Tools
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Each tool answers one question clients ask us, and tells you when the answer needs a person instead.
Pricing
What would Echo cost me each month?
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Structure
Sole trader or limited company?
Put in your profit. See the tax difference, the tipping point and the reasons beyond tax.
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Directors
Where is my company leaking money?
Seven questions and a straight read on the one move that changes it.
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Factsheets
The rates, reliefs and rules for 2026/27.
Written and checked by the Echo team. Drag the row or use the arrows. Leave a first name and email and the PDF opens.
Factsheet · September 2026
CIS 2026: contractors and subcontractors
Verification, deductions, monthly returns and the changes for the new tax year, for anyone in construction.
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Factsheet · 2026
Extracting Company Profits 2026
Salary, dividends, pensions, benefits and the order that costs the least. The sheet behind the Month 9 review.
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Factsheet · 2026
Corporation Tax 2026
Rates, marginal relief, deadlines and the reliefs most small companies miss.
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Factsheet · 2026
Income Tax 2026
Bands, allowances, the personal allowance taper and what changes at £100,000.
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Factsheet · 2026
Property Tax Changes
The six dates that change what landlords pay, from Section 24 to Making Tax Digital, on one sheet.
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Factsheet · 2026
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax 2026
Who is in and from when, what a quarterly update contains, the deadlines and penalties, and what to do now.
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Guides
Longer reads for one decision.
Each guide sits on the page it belongs to, with the context around it.
Landlords · guide
Seven tax mistakes landlords make
The seven we see most, what each one costs, and the fix for each.
Get it on the landlords pageDirectors · guide
15 legal ways to reduce your tax as a director
Salary, dividends, pensions, benefits, timing. The list we work through in Month 9.
Get it on the limited companies pageSole traders · checklist
Making Tax Digital readiness checklist
What to have in place before your first quarterly update, in the order to do it.
Get it on the MTD pageArticles
The questions behind the questions.
One article a month, written by the team and checked by Joshua. The first six titles are set and will be published here as they are ready.
Directors · in preparation
Taking over £50,000 out of your company? Read this first.
Higher-rate planning for directors, and the order salary, dividends and pension should go in.
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Landlords · in preparation
Section 24, explained properly: what landlords actually pay now.
Why rent is taxed before mortgage interest, what that does to the effective rate, and the options.
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Landlords · in preparation
Everyone asks if they should incorporate. Usually the answer is no.
A genuine opinion, properly caveated, on when a property company pays and when it does not.
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Sole traders · in preparation
Making Tax Digital is already live, and it widens next April.
The £50,000 threshold now, £30,000 from April 2027 and why gross income is the number that counts.
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Everyone · in preparation
5 October: the tax deadline most people have never heard of.
Self Assessment registration for anyone new to it for 2025/26, and what happens if you miss it.
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Business owners · in preparation
Three numbers every business owner should know by heart.
Not the turnover. The three that tell you whether the month worked.
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Podcast
Conversations with the people who make things.
Founders, investors and people from outside finance on what really happens behind the numbers. Recorded at Stockley Park, first episodes coming soon.
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