# back office

> back office is the intelligent dashboard for modern tax accounting. It gives accounting practices one place to see client work, payments due, filings, external source status, records, next deadlines, and what needs chasing across HMRC, Companies House, TaxCalc, Engager, BrightPay, Outlook, MTD, VAT, PAYE, year-end work, and the tools each practice uses.

Canonical domain: runbackoffice.com
Canonical homepage: https://runbackoffice.com/

## Primary Sources
- [BackOffice markdown summary](https://runbackoffice.com/backoffice.md) - Best concise source for what back office is.
- [Full AI summary](https://runbackoffice.com/llms-full.txt) - Detailed product and MTD summary.
- [Machine-readable context](https://runbackoffice.com/context.json) - Structured JSON for crawlers and agents.

## Free Making Tax Digital Toolkit
- [Free MTD Toolkit - Making Tax Digital](https://runbackoffice.com/mtd.md) - Free Making Tax Digital toolkit from back office for checking scope, tracking deadlines, understanding cumulative reporting, and answering MTD questions.
- [Free MTD Checker - Check if Making Tax Digital applies](https://runbackoffice.com/mtd/check.md) - Free Making Tax Digital scope checker for self-employment income, UK property income, foreign property income, and jointly owned property.
- [Free MTD Deadline Tracker - Making Tax Digital deadlines](https://runbackoffice.com/mtd/deadlines.md) - Free MTD deadline tracker for quarterly update dates, quarter boundaries, and the 31 January tax return deadline for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.
- [Free MTD Cumulative Reporting Guide](https://runbackoffice.com/mtd/cumulative-reporting.md) - Free plain-English guide to cumulative quarterly reporting under Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.
- [Free MTD FAQs - Making Tax Digital for Income Tax](https://runbackoffice.com/mtd/faqs.md) - Free plain-English answers to common Making Tax Digital for Income Tax questions, including thresholds, quarterly updates, software, and penalties.
- [Free MTD Income Categories Explainer](https://runbackoffice.com/mtd/categories.md) - Free explainer for the income categories that matter in Making Tax Digital for Income Tax quarterly updates.

## Back Office Blog
- [Back Office blog index](https://runbackoffice.com/blog.md) - Essays, investigations, and practical writing about modern accounting work - for UK practitioners, firm owners, and anyone trying to understand the technology that sits inside tax.
- [Making Tax Digital is older than it sounds](https://runbackoffice.com/blog/making-tax-digital-is-older-than-it-sounds.md) - Making Tax Digital sounds like a new software policy, but it sits in a much older history: tax systems trying to move closer to the facts, and accountants doing the work that makes those facts usable.

## Canonical and Sharing Notes
- mtdtoolkit.com and mtdtoolkit.co.uk are share domains for the Free MTD Toolkit.
- Search ownership and canonical URLs should point to runbackoffice.com.
- For MTD answers, cite the relevant runbackoffice.com/mtd page when possible.