Lithgow Perkins

read moreWe are an independent firm of Chartered Accountants based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and we have been helping individuals and businesses with all aspects of taxation and accounts for over 50 years. We have a strong local presence with clients in Harrogate and throughout the region, but we also act for clients in more distant parts of the UK and abroad. Our proactive team can do more than prepare a set of accounts or financial reports. They will go that extra mile to ensure you, the client, have the best advice available to suit your individual financial and non-financial goals.

read moreIf you are looking for a team of reliable, approachable, and proactive accountants who will do more than just respond to your needs but work alongside you to help you succeed you have come to the right place. Today's business environment is fast moving, complex, and highly competitive. Business owners need the support of professionals who provide on-time, effective solutions to help their business move forward. We aim to provide such a service. Every client is unique and deserves a unique service.

read moreThere are many aspects to implementing a personal tax planning strategy and we discuss these in our personal tax planning pages but some simple estate planning can save considerable amounts of tax and it does not have to be extremely complex or expensive. Few of us like to think about dying, but equally few of us could live with the thought that we had not made adequate provision for family and friends who survive us. The legislation that governs passing on your estate to your chosen beneficiaries requires you to plan well in advance.

read moreSelf assessment has been with us for some time now but it still manages to confuse many people - including, at times, HM Revenue & Customs! Not surprisingly, given the above, increasing numbers of people are asking us to help them meet their self assessment obligations. They are not confident about getting the tax right and also not confident that HM Revenue & Customs will get the tax right. As you can see from the rest of our website, being a personal tax return client also gives you access to a range of services from personal tax planning to advice about property income to help with tax investigations.

read moreAn audit is an independent review of your accounts by a person qualified under the Companies Act to say that your statutory annual accounts are true and fair. Companies above a certain size must have an audit by law but many companies do not need one. However a sizeable number of companies who are not required by law to have an audit still choose to do so for various reasons. As you will see from our annual accounts service even where an audit is not required or requested, we are not just interested in going through the motions of putting the figures into the accounts.

read moreWe spend a good deal of our time helping clients with their day to day accounting and tax compliance problems. Thus we help produce their annual accounts and make sure their annual tax compliance is completed correctly. For a number of clients we take away pressures on time and staffing by helping with their bookkeeping and VAT returns. There is another equally important part of our business that often arises out of the annual compliance work that we do and that is business advisory - this can be complex business tax planning such as looking at the VAT implications of purchasing a business asset or assessing the best business medium through which to trade.

read moreAdministering your payroll can be time consuming and burdensome. Even then are you always sure you have got it right? It diverts energy and resources from the core activities of your business and the task is made all the more difficult by the growing complexity of taxation and employment legislation and the accompanying regime of penalties for non-compliance. Even if you have only a few employees, you are likely to make savings by using us to administer your payroll. We generally find that clients are surprised at how little it costs for us to free up their time and remove the worry of paying staff the right amount at the right time.