QTax
The facts below are what the maker publishes about QTax, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From QTax's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Self Assessment | £39.99 a year | Self Assessment tax return · Direct HMRC submission · Smart prompts and checks · Allowable-expense guidance · Secure document storage · Email support · incl. VAT |
| HMRC Compliance Check Protection | £39.99 a year | Compliance-review support · Guidance on required documents · Help preparing responses and clarifications · Optional add-on; incl. VAT |
| Pay per filing | £30, paid once | One quarterly update or one annual tax return with appendices · filing, export, corrections and resubmissions included · £30 + VAT per client filing; charged when the completed report is produced. Annual-return-only clients are charged when added. |
| Five consecutive filings | £120, paid once | Four quarterly updates and one annual tax return · start from any quarter · £120 + VAT prepaid for five consecutive filings for one client. |
The facts
Each one read from QTax's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access controls
- The company page states that practice access is role-based and uses two-factor authentication.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The software is for UK accounting firms managing sole-trader clients.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Audit support
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Categorisation
- AI suggests whether transactions are business or personal expenses based on previous categorisation decisions, while the practice reviews and corrects them.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Client portal
- Clients can connect a bank, capture receipts, view an estimated tax amount, and answer one-off questions through secure links.checked 11 Oct 2026
- HMRC filing
- Q Tax Agent files quarterly MTD updates and SA100 returns under the practice’s HMRC agent authorisation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Inputs
- Records can come from read-only Open Banking feeds, PDF or CSV statements, manual entry, and previous submissions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Investment income
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Mobile access
- web_onlychecked 22 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Q Tax Agent helps accounting practices agree a client tax plan, keep records reconciled, and monitor actual results against the plan throughout the year.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Regulatory recognition
- The site states that Q Tax Agent is HMRC-recognised for Self Assessment and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Rental income
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Security
- Q Tax Agent says its Open Banking connections are read-only, it does not hold banking credentials, and its primary service-data hosting is in the UK.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Self-employment support
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Support
- The company says it provides guided onboarding and stays with practices through their first quarterly cycle.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Tax monitoring
- The practice portal tracks the client against the agreed plan and monitors CIS through the year.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Usage limit
- If two consecutive quarterly updates for a client are unpaid, new bank transactions stop arriving for that client; one payment restarts the feed.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free features
- Bookkeeping, tax calculations and planning are free to use with no monthly subscription.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- London, England, United Kingdomchecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker
- Q Tax Agent is developed with Q Accountants, an ACCA-regulated London practice that the company describes as its design partner and first user.checked 11 Oct 2026
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