Accountants in Dungannon
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Dungannon 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 Dungannon
Dungannon has one of the more industrial profiles of any town its size in Northern Ireland — engineering and manufacturing, significant agri-food, and a haulage and distribution sector serving both directions across the border.
It's also one of the most genuinely cross-border business communities in Northern Ireland. Plenty of Dungannon businesses buy, sell, employ or subcontract across the border as a matter of routine, which raises questions about which entity should hold a contract, how euro exposure is handled, and where employment obligations actually sit.
Getting to us, and us getting to you
Roughly forty-five minutes from Ballymena.
Most Dungannon work runs by video, which suits a business community that's usually mid-job rather than sitting at a desk. We'll come out when it's worth the morning.
What we do for Dungannon businesses
Dungannon businesses trade across the border as a matter of routine. That raises a set of questions most accountants meet occasionally and we meet constantly.
- Cross-border VAT — goods on the NI basis, services under UK place-of-supply rules — and knowing which of the two you're actually running.
- Currency policy — one written approach to invoicing and translation, so exchange movements stop looking like trading performance.
- Employing across the border — where income tax is due and where social security is due can land in different places. Established properly before the first payroll run.
- Haulage and distribution costing — vehicles, fuel, drivers and licences priced into jobs where a few percent decides whether the work is worth having.
- Engineering and manufacturing accounts — stock and work in progress valued consistently, with monthly numbers you can act on.
Questions we get asked
I trade in both euro and sterling — how should I handle it?
Decide a policy and stick to it rather than converting ad hoc. Which currency you invoice in, how you translate for the accounts, and whether you hold euro balances all affect reported profit, and inconsistency creates swings that look like trading performance but aren't. A simple written policy fixes most of it.
I employ someone who lives in the Republic — where do they pay tax?
It depends on where the work is physically done and on the terms of the UK–Ireland double taxation agreement, and it can differ for income tax and for social security. It's genuinely a case-by-case question and getting it wrong creates liabilities in two jurisdictions, so it's worth asking before the first payroll run rather than after.
Should I set up a separate company in the Republic?
Sometimes, but far less often than people assume. It brings a second set of filings, a second tax authority and real ongoing cost, so it needs to be earning its keep. We'd work through what you're actually trying to solve first — quite often the answer is a contractual change rather than a company.
Looking for an accountant in Dungannon?
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.