Accountant in Derry
Tax & Accounting for Derry Businesses
Derry/Londonderry BT47-BT48 is Northern Ireland's second city, on the River Foyle close to the border with the Republic, with a growing technology, software, manufacturing and professional-services economy, two university campuses, a regenerated city centre, and significant cross-border trade with Donegal and the Republic. The city has a substantial professional, contractor, self-employed and small-business community, and an active landlord market including student lets.
That gives Derry a varied accounting profile. The tech, software and manufacturing firms need full company accounting and often R&D claims. Cross-border traders need careful VAT handling under the Windsor Framework arrangements. Contractors and the self-employed need the right structure with IR35 assessment. And the landlord market needs Section 24 planning. We work with Derry clients entirely online, with fixed monthly fees and the same depth of attention as a local firm.
💡 As an HMRC-registered agent we deal directly with HMRC on your behalf, so you never have to spend hours on hold or navigate their website yourself.
Real Client Story
How we claimed £14,200 in R&D tax credits for a Derry tech firm
Client R co-founded a software company in Derry's growing tech cluster, set up as a Ltd company developing original technology. They were carrying out genuine technical development resolving real software challenges, but had never claimed R&D tax credits or structured their remuneration efficiently.
We assessed the development against the R&D definition, the company was resolving genuine technical uncertainty in its software, which qualified. We identified the qualifying costs (developer salaries, software, a proportion of overheads), wrote the technical narrative, submitted the claim under the merged R&D scheme, and restructured the founders' remuneration into a tax-efficient salary-plus-dividend mix.
Total outcome: £14,200 of R&D tax relief claimed, plus an efficient remuneration structure for the founders saving further tax each year and tax-efficient pension provision through the company.