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Yes. IRIS Elements combines tax, accounts production, AML, and practice management on one cloud platform sharing a single client record, so information entered once (a client’s details or a trial balance, for example) is available across every module without re-entry. Modules can be added as your practice grows.

Yes. IRIS Elements is recognised by HMRC for Making Tax Digital. It links directly to HMRC, prepopulates personal tax details, and validates submissions before they’re sent, contributing to a 98% acceptance rate with HMRC. Each client’s obligations (land and property income, self-employment income, and the final declaration) are tracked from a single MTD tab, so there’s no separate bridging software to manage.

IRIS Elements checks entries as they’re made and flags anomalies in income, expenses, and deductions before a return reaches HMRC, cross-referencing HMRC business rules and prior-year figures. The accountant reviews every flag and decides what to file; the AI supports that review rather than replacing it. Because tax and accounts production share one client record, figures don’t need re-entering between systems, removing a common source of manual error. More than 9,000 practices currently use this anomaly detection.

IRIS has two leading accountancy software solutions – IRIS Accountancy Suite and IRIS Elements. IRIS Elements is perfect for growing firms – and those with ambitions to become something bigger. It automates job stages as compliance work progresses (Professional and Enterprise tiers), so a self-assessment job advances automatically rather than needing manual status updates. The Practice Home Screen gives one view of self-assessment progress by status, upcoming due dates, and overall workload, and data entered in one tab carries straight through to the next, cutting the retyping that typically slows a practice down at peak season.

IRIS Elements Tax enables practices to manage both MTD for Income Tax and Self Assessment clients within one solution. For MTD clients, digital records flow from IRIS Elements Cashbook through categorisation and quarterly submissions, while the MTD Obligations Tracker provides a client-level view of upcoming deadlines and submission status. There is no need for a separate bridging product.

IRIS Elements Cashbook is included free for Elements Accounts or Tax customers and is built specifically for MTD, feeding bookkeeping data straight into quarterly updates and Self Assessment without a separate bridging product.

Because IRIS Elements combines bookkeeping (Elements Cashbook), tax, accounts production, and MTD filing on one modular platform, the fair comparison for a practice is the complete MTD stack rather than a single piece of software. Audit every tool holding your tax, accounts and practice management workflows together and see the difference.

IRIS Elements uses a modular pricing model: a per-client base subscription plus a per-user surcharge for each product a practice runs, scaling from Essentials through Professional to Enterprise on the same platform. Firms with three to 20 staff are typically best suited to the Professional tier for Tax and Accounts Production; solo practitioners or teams of two can start with Essentials and upgrade later; Enterprise suits firms of 10 or more staff with more complex clients. If in doubt, reach out to our team.