{"id":2923,"date":"2026-10-17T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:47:24","slug":"mtd-its-my-way-or-the-highway-by-tony-margaritelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/mtd-its-my-way-or-the-highway-by-tony-margaritelli\/","title":{"rendered":"MTD: It\u2019s my way or the highway by Tony Margaritelli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tony Margaritelli wonders whether HMRC\u2019s decision to mandate MTD is fair to all taxpayers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read a recent post on X (formerly Twitter) concerning an elderly lady who struggles with technology, especially parking apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poster said: \u201cAll she wants to do is put her car in a space for a couple of hours and pay. She does not want to sign up for a new app. She does not want to verify her device. She does not want to save her credit card information. She does not want to figure out why the app thinks she is in Devon and cannot geolocate the car park she is standing in. She wants to take a few coins and put them in a machine and do her shopping\/meet her friends. Now, she finds excuses not to meet friends or shop because she is so worried about the parking situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last time I looked it had over 1.6 million views had been reposted 7,900 times and received 2,300 comments. They included one from our own Rebecca Bennyworth MBE, who said: \u201cSo true. The worst is when these blasted things are in an underground car park with no signal. Had it in Bath recently and almost reduced me to tears. The stress of trying to get to a meeting and not get a parking ticket meant I won\u2019t be going again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MTD-Its-my-way-or-the-highway-by-Tony-Margaritelli-.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of MTD- It\u2019s my way or the highway by Tony Margaritelli.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-5c98bf82-6ba5-42d4-bb4b-368c43094a6e\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MTD-Its-my-way-or-the-highway-by-Tony-Margaritelli-.pdf\">MTD- It\u2019s my way or the highway by Tony Margaritelli<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MTD-Its-my-way-or-the-highway-by-Tony-Margaritelli-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-5c98bf82-6ba5-42d4-bb4b-368c43094a6e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Margaritelli wonders whether HMRC\u2019s decision to mandate MTD is fair to all taxpayers. I read a recent post on X (formerly Twitter) concerning an elderly lady who struggles with technology, especially parking apps. The poster said: \u201cAll she wants to do is put her car in a space for a couple of hours and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-october-november-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}