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Digital Accounting Evolution®

Making Tax Digital “on your terms, the way it should be done.”

Empowering People Towards Technical Excellence

Better Records. Better Margins.

Whichever side of the desk you sit. Courses for business owners and landlords, and a structured method for Accountancy Practices.

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Who We Are

Built from the inside of the Accountancy world.

Digital Accounting Evolution was founded with one clear purpose, to close the gap between MTD software and the people using it.

Thousands of businesses have signed up to Making Tax Digital compliant software. Far fewer truly understand how to use it. That gap costs time, money and confidence, and it lands on the desk of their Accountant.

We exist to change that.

“Digital Accounting Evolution® was built from real experience. When MTD for VAT launched in 2019, I chose to fully digitalise my own Accountancy Practice, embracing it rather than enduring it. What I saw across the wider industry told me one thing clearly: the education gap was real, it was growing, and it needed to be addressed.”

Samantha Davies, Founder & Managing Director

Through deep, structured, on-demand education, we empower businesses to take genuine control of their digital tax obligations, and give Accountancy Firms a powerful new tool in the process.

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Five Years in Development
Built from lived experience inside the Accountancy industry, not a quick-to-market product.
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On Demand, 24 / 7
Clients learn at their own pace, on any device, at any time. No appointments. No waiting.
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Software Agnostic
Works alongside any MTD-compliant software: Xero, QuickBooks, FreeAgent, and more.
Our Products

Start with what you need, today.

Whether you need to complete your MTD registration urgently or master your software in depth, we have the right product for where you are right now.

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For Accountancy Firms
The Evolution Method
Free Practice Health Check
Free · Self-run · Mutual NDA before anything further

Merging and acquiring?

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A structured transformation for owner-led Accountancy Practices. Rebuild the margin that digitalisation quietly took, with a method and a portal built inside a working practice, not designed for one.

Start with the free Practice Health Check, self-run on your own data. Nothing connects to your systems and nothing is stored.

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In-App Learning Platform
MTD Mastery

A comprehensive in-app learning platform covering your MTD software in real depth. Go beyond the basics. Understand your software the way your Accountant wishes you did. On any device, at any time, at your own pace. Download the app to see the courses available now.

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Government Gateway Sign Up
How to Sign up for MTD
on Your Government Gateway
Get the Step-by-Step Guide, £15

The April 2026 deadline is here and thousands of businesses have still not signed up on their Government Gateway for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. This step-by-step guide shows you exactly what to click, where to go, and what to enter, using real screens from a real registration. Covers Sole Traders and Landlords. Includes a live interactive screen walkthrough so you can follow along in real time.

Instant access · One-off payment · No subscription

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For Practices and Business Owners
Software Migration Programme
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No commitment · Mutual NDA before anything is shared

If you run a practice. Tied to one provider, and the terms have changed. What it costs to move, what breaks, what it saves, and the order it has to happen in.

If you run a business. Most people are on the plan they were put on years ago, not the one that suits them now. There is usually more in what you already pay for than you have been shown, and better options if there are not.

For Your Business

MTD was designed to control you.
Here is how you turn that around.

Making Tax Digital was not designed with your best interests in mind. It was designed for a system steering towards government calculating your tax, where you simply agree. But a business owner who truly masters their software does not become dependent, they become more profitable, more efficient, and more in control than the system ever intended.

Real-time visibility of your finances
Know your numbers now, not at year end
Time back in your day
Stop losing hours to software confusion
A more profitable business
Use the tools properly and outperform the ones that don't
Control, not compliance
The system was not designed for this. But it is what is possible.
Our Purpose

Accountants should not be replaced by a government portal, or an AI.

The government's long-term direction is towards a centralised digital tax system, one that quietly reduces the need for Accountants to be involved at all. Most Accountancy Firms are not yet seeing this.

The Firms that future-proof themselves are the ones that deepen client relationships now, moving beyond compliance and becoming the trusted guide their clients cannot do without. An educated client who truly understands their software does not leave their Accountant. They rely on them more.

Digital Accounting Evolution exists to make that happen. Putting the right knowledge in the right hands, keeping Accountants indispensable in a world that is trying to make them optional.

The same is true of AI. The question is not whether AI will change Accountancy, it already is. The question is who controls how it is used. DAE is committed to educating both firms and their clients on how to work effectively alongside AI, not to replace professional judgement, but to sharpen it. The firms that learn to harness these tools for their clients will be the ones that cannot be disrupted.


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"The firms that educate their clients today are the ones that cannot be replaced tomorrow."
Samantha Davies
Managing Director
Digital Accounting Evolution® Ltd
Accountancy Firm Partners

A Partnership opportunity for forward-thinking Practices.

We work with a select number of Accountancy Practices as Authorised Partners, taking owner-led firms from 35% to 80% margin without chasing more clients or working more hours.

Start with the free Practice Health Check. Five minutes, self-run, on your own data. Nothing connects to your systems and nothing is stored. It shows you where the practice is quietly leaking revenue.


Free Practice Health Check
What Partner Firms tell us they're looking for:
A way to add genuine value to clients beyond year-end compliance
A solution to the MTD questions that eat into billable time
New revenue streams without hiring more staff
A reason for clients to commit to longer-term fee arrangements
A way to position the firm as proactive and forward-thinking

If any of this resonates, let's talk.

Get in Touch

Let's talk.

Managing Director Samantha Davies
Email [email protected]
Telephone 0330 380 1806
Address Suite 2, 155 Minories, Aldgate
City of London, EC3N 1AD
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