Go Books is the simple app for UK sole traders. Send professional invoices, snap your receipts, and file your quarterly Making Tax Digital updates straight to HMRC — no accountant, no spreadsheets, no panic.
Every invoice you raise and every receipt you snap becomes a compliant digital tax record automatically. By the time the deadline comes round, your update is already built.
Branded invoices with your logo, automatic numbering, VAT support and payment tracking. Know instantly who's paid and who's overdue.
Photograph any receipt or bill. Our AI reads the supplier, date, amount and VAT, files it under the right HMRC category, and keeps the image as your digital record. One tap to confirm.
Your cumulative totals build themselves as you work. When a deadline approaches, review the ready-made summary and send it to HMRC from inside the app.
Read-only bank feeds match incoming payments to invoices and spot business expenses you forgot to claim — the ones that quietly shrink your tax bill.
VAT registered? Your 9-box return assembles itself from your invoices and receipts, ready to submit under MTD VAT. Not registered? You'll never see a VAT field.
Annual mode gives you a copy-ready Self Assessment summary mapped to the actual SA103F boxes, a 31 January countdown, and a one-tap switch to quarterly when your time comes.
A live estimate of the tax you owe so far, your penalty-point balance, and deadline reminders before things become urgent. No nasty surprises in January.
A free 60-second checker tells you exactly when Making Tax Digital applies to you — April 2026, 2027, 2028 or not yet — in plain English.
Camera-first mobile design. Capture a receipt in the merchant's doorway, send an invoice from the job, check your tax position at the kitchen table.
Raise and send invoices from the app. Every invoice is already a compliant digital income record — no re-typing anything anywhere.
Coffee with a client, diesel, materials — photograph the receipt and confirm the suggestion. Ten seconds, filed forever.
Each quarter, your update is already assembled in HMRC's format. Review it, tap submit, get your receipt ID. Done until next quarter.
MTD for Income Tax replaces the annual Self Assessment with digital record-keeping and quarterly updates. It's being rolled out by income level — and the thresholds are based on your gross turnover, not profit.
Tax data is about as personal as data gets. We treat it that way.
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, always.
When bank feeds arrive, we can look — never touch. We can't move a penny.
Designed around HMRC's Making Tax Digital requirements from day one.
Export everything, any time. Leave whenever you like and take it with you.
Go Books connects to HMRC using HMRC's own secure authorisation — you log in on HMRC's website and we never see your Government Gateway password. HMRC recognition for Making Tax Digital is in progress.
Join Go Books free while it's in early access — invoice, capture and file like it's nothing.
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