Lekhio: Your First Employee Live

Lekhio is an independent UK company. We do not represent HMRC or any government entity, and HMRC does not endorse us. Lekhio prepares your figures and you approve them. HMRC holds you responsible for your own tax at all times. Official sources for every tax rule we explain are listed below. Free: your books, your receipts read when you photograph or upload them (up to 60 a day), and your Self Assessment dates unless you trade as a company. Paid adds WhatsApp, voice notes and your tax worked out. One login: your own tax, your business, and a second one. Take a photo of a receipt in the app and it is read into your books, waiting for your yes. With paid Lekhio, send it on WhatsApp instead, hold to talk and say what you spent or were paid, and ask any tax question in plain English for a straight answer worked on your own figures. Filing the return is the easy part. The work that shapes your bill happens across the year: logging every expense you are entitled to claim, keeping the records straight, and chasing what your customers owe you. Lekhio does that work, every day, and you approve everything. For every business that is not public: sole traders in any trade, drivers, carers, freelancers, consultants, landlords, partnerships and limited company directors. Seven days of the paid employee free, no card. Free Lekhio stays free after that. Cancel in the store at any time. Two helpers, and neither of them needs you to learn anything: One answers the second you ask in the app, any tax question, on your real numbers. One watches your figures all year and tells you what needs you, on your dashboard, the next time you open it: a threshold creeping closer, a deadline coming, an invoice nobody has paid, a purchase whose timing matters for this year. What it does: Reads your receipts, invoices and voice notes, and sorts every entry Finds the reliefs you are entitled to: working from home, mileage, equipment timing, pension contributions Tracks the CIS tax your contractors have already handed over, so it counts against your bill Keeps your Making Tax Digital figures as you go, with a file for the software that sends them Builds invoices ready for you to send, and drafts a polite chase when one goes unpaid Answers your tax questions instantly, in plain English Lekhio cannot send to HMRC yet: updates go via other software or your accountant, and nothing reaches HMRC from Lekhio. Your records are encrypted, and we never sell your data. WHERE OUR TAX INFORMATION COMES FROM Lekhio explains tax rules published by HMRC. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorised by HMRC or any government entity. The official sources are: Making Tax Digital for Income Tax: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-making-tax-digital-for-income-tax Who needs Making Tax Digital, and when: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/find-out-if-and-when-you-need-to-use-making-tax-digital-for-income-tax Self Assessment tax returns and deadlines: https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns Income Tax rates and Personal Allowances: https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates Income Tax in Scotland: https://www.gov.uk/scottish-income-tax Self employed National Insurance rates: https://www.gov.uk/self-employed-national-insurance-rates Expenses if you are self employed: https://www.gov.uk/expenses-if-youre-self-employed Simplified expenses, including mileage and working from home: https://www.gov.uk/simpler-income-tax-simplified-expenses Claim capital allowances: https://www.gov.uk/capital-allowances Tax on your private pension contributions: https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-your-private-pension/pension-tax-relief Construction Industry Scheme: https://www.gov.uk/what-is-the-construction-industry-scheme Register for VAT: https://www.gov.uk/register-for-vat This is general guidance and not regulated tax advice. Lekhio asks where you live: a Scottish taxpayer is worked on the Scottish Income Tax bands, and everybody else on the England, Wales and Northern Ireland bands.