More than half of UK SMBs admit they're not ready for new digital tax deadline
THE SO WHAT
A 55% readiness gap ahead of the UK’s 2026 MTD deadline is a two-year pipeline for accounting, fintech, and workflow vendors. If you sell into UK SMBs, align your roadmap and marketing around compliance-by-default — this is a regulatory forcing function, not a nice-to-have feature.
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