Accountants in Lurgan
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Lurgan 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 Lurgan
Lurgan is a manufacturing and market town with a textile history and a present built on light manufacturing, distribution, retail and a large base of family-run businesses.
Family businesses raise a question that a purely technical accountant tends to duck: what happens next. Succession, whether the next generation is coming in, and how the current owners get value out are decisions with tax consequences that are far cheaper to plan than to fix.
Getting to us, and us getting to you
Around fifty-five minutes from Ballymena.
Remote by default, in person when a conversation genuinely needs to be had across a table — and succession conversations usually do.
What we do for Lurgan businesses
Manufacturing and distribution accounting, plus the family-business questions that get postponed until they are expensive.
- Succession and exit — how ownership passes on, and what it costs, planned while there are still options.
- Owner remuneration — salary and dividend across more than one family member, planned together rather than separately.
- Stock and costing — valued consistently so month-to-month margin means something.
- Capital allowances — plant and machinery claimed properly.
- Compliance — accounts, Corporation Tax, VAT and payroll, on time.
Questions we get asked
The next generation wants in. What should we sort first?
Ownership and expectation, in that order, and both before money. The tax treatment of passing shares on is manageable and there are reliefs worth having, but they reward planning and punish doing it in a hurry. The conversation nobody wants to have is the cheap part.
Two of us take money out of the business. Are we doing it right?
Possibly, but it is worth checking together rather than separately. Where two or three family members draw from the same company, the efficient answer for one is often not the efficient answer for all, and the combined position is what actually matters.
Is the business worth anything if we sell?
That depends almost entirely on whether it runs without you. A business that needs the owner in it every day is a job, and buyers price it as one. If a sale is on the horizon, that is the thing to work on first.
Looking for an accountant in Lurgan?
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.