A named accountant
The same person every time, who knows your business without needing the background explained again.
Wigan & Leigh
Accountants in Wigan and Leigh who do more than the basics
An office on Hope Street in Leigh, working with trades, hauliers, care providers, shops and family businesses across the borough. Fixed pricing, a named accountant, and advice in plain English.
Find us
Our Leigh office
- AddressHope Street, Leigh, Greater Manchester, WN7 1NS
- WhatsApp+44 7457 428643
- Emailhello@buzzaccounting.co.uk
- MeetingsIn person by appointment, or by phone, video call and WhatsApp
Working with Wigan businesses
A borough built on trades, transport and family firms
Wigan borough runs on the kind of businesses that rarely get a specialist accountant: builders and electricians working under CIS, hauliers and van fleets, care providers, salons, shops and the family firms that have been going two or three generations. Between Leigh, Wigan, Atherton, Tyldesley and Hindley that is thousands of companies, most of them owner-managed.
Those businesses have specific problems. If you are in construction, CIS deductions get taken at 20% by contractors and sit with HMRC until year end unless somebody offsets them monthly against your PAYE bill — and the VAT reverse charge catches people out in both directions. If you run vehicles, what is claimable and how it is claimed changes the tax bill materially. If you employ people, payroll and pension deadlines arrive whether or not the month has been busy.
None of that is exotic. It is just detail, and detail is what gets missed when your accountant only looks at the year once it is over.
What local clients ask us most
- Is my CIS being offset monthly or sitting with HMRC?
- Which way round does the VAT reverse charge go?
- Are my subcontractors genuinely self-employed?
- What can I claim on the vans?
- When do I need to register for VAT?
- How do I pay myself now we are a limited company?
How we work
A local office, and none of the things people hate
Being on Hope Street means you can come in if you want to. Most clients do not — everything works by phone, video and WhatsApp — but the option matters, and so does knowing who you are dealing with.
A price agreed up front
Fixed monthly fee, agreed before any work starts. No hourly billing, and no invoice for picking up the phone.
Answers the same week
Not a set of accounts nine months after your year end, once every decision has already been taken.
The full service
Everything a Wigan business needs, in one place
A local office does not mean a limited service. Accounts, tax, payroll, bookkeeping and advisory all run across the group, and Leigh clients get the lot.
Accounts and tax
Year-end accounts, corporation tax, self assessment and all the filing that goes with them.
Bookkeeping
Xero and FreeAgent, kept current through the year rather than rebuilt in a panic each spring.
Payroll and pensions
From one director to a full site team, auto-enrolment handled and deadlines met.
Buzz Business Pulse
Monthly management numbers and a rolling cashflow, so you see the year coming instead of reading about it afterwards.
Virtual Finance Team
A whole finance function without hiring one — bookkeeper, management accountant and financial director between us.
Tax planning
Done before the year end, while there is still something to be done about it.
Across the borough
Serving businesses across Wigan and Leigh
The Hope Street office covers Leigh, Wigan, Atherton, Tyldesley, Astley, Hindley, Golborne, Standish and the villages between them. Through our Salford and Manchester work we act for businesses right across Greater Manchester, and through our other offices across England and Northern Ireland.
Questions
Common questions from Wigan business owners
I am in construction. Do you know CIS properly?
Yes — it is one of the things we deal with most. The two that cost people money are CIS suffered not being offset monthly against PAYE, and the VAT reverse charge being applied the wrong way round on subcontractors.
Do I need to come to the office?
No. Most clients never do. If you would rather sit down with someone, Hope Street is there and you are welcome.
What does it cost?
A fixed monthly fee agreed before anything starts, based on what you actually need. The packages are set out here with the numbers on the page.
How hard is it to switch?
Straightforward. We write to your current accountant, collect the records and handle the handover. You approve one letter and that is largely it.