Accountants in Craigavon
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Craigavon businesses — run from our office in Ballymena, not a call centre across the water. Fixed fees, plain English, and someone who picks up the phone.
The business base in Craigavon
Craigavon sits on the M1 between Belfast and the border and is one of Northern Ireland's real industrial centres — pharmaceutical and life sciences, food processing at scale, engineering, and the logistics that the motorway position makes obvious.
It is also where you find the most R&D activity outside Belfast. A lot of it goes unclaimed, because businesses assume research and development means laboratories rather than solving a production problem that had no off-the-shelf answer.
Getting to us, and us getting to you
Around fifty minutes from Ballymena, straight down the M1.
An easy run when a site visit makes sense, and with process manufacturing it often does — the detail that matters is usually on the floor rather than in the file.
What we do for Craigavon businesses
Manufacturing at scale, plus the reliefs that manufacturers most often leave on the table.
- R&D tax relief — assessed honestly — including telling you when a claim would not stand up, which is worth more than a claim that unravels two years later.
- Stock, yield and waste — valued on a basis that holds month to month, so margin reflects production.
- Shift payroll — premiums, overtime and holiday pay on variable earnings, where payroll errors in process manufacturing cluster.
- Capital allowances — plant and machinery claimed properly, including full expensing.
- Cross-border trade — movements to the Republic on the NI basis, which is generally simpler than a GB business faces for the same goods.
Questions we get asked
Do we qualify for R&D relief?
More manufacturers do than claim, and fewer do than the cold-callers suggest. The test is whether you were resolving genuine technical uncertainty — not whether you bought new equipment. We will tell you plainly if the answer is no, because HMRC's scrutiny of these claims has tightened considerably.
We supply into the Republic. What changes after the Windsor Framework?
For goods, less than you might fear and generally in your favour. Northern Ireland's position means movements into the Republic and onward into the EU are treated more simply than the same movement from GB. The advantage only holds if your invoicing and evidence are set up to match it.
Our margins move month to month and we cannot explain it. Why?
Nine times out of ten it is stock, not trading. If work in progress is counted or valued differently between months, the margin swings for reasons that have nothing to do with how well you sold.
Looking for an accountant in Craigavon?
Tell us what you need and we'll come back to you, usually the same working day. No call centre, no script.
Prefer to talk first? Call the Ballymena office on 028 2522 0100, or:
We work right across the region
Northern Ireland is our largest base. Most work runs by phone, video and WhatsApp, so distance from Ballymena matters a lot less than it used to.