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Welcome to Stephenson Smart

Our team of chartered accountants and business advisors are based across six offices in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire – King’s Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Fakenham, Wisbech, Downham Market and March.

For more than 100 years, we have been providing expert, tailored advice to our clients, with personal finance, business accounting and taxation

The Team at Stephenson Smart

Our teams include highly qualified individuals who provide a helpful, professional, honest and caring service to our clients, to help them navigate their business and personal finances.

We have a wealth of experience and pride ourselves on the wide range of services that we can provide, from advice on inheritance tax and succession planning, to probate and ATOL reporting.

Latest News:

09/09/21 - Tax Changes – Plan for Health and Social Care

Henry Pettitt, Partner at Stephenson Smart in Great Yarmouth, explains how the Government’s tax changes and new plan for supporting the UK’S health and social care system will work. How will the government’s tax changes from next April affect you?...

07/09/21 - Landlords: Are you ready for Making Tax Digital?

Landlords: Are you ready for Making Tax Digital? Making Tax Digital is a new way of working that sees the government calling upon taxpayers to report their income and expenses via digital software. At present it only applies to VAT...

03/08/21 - Legislation Day: Response to tax measures by Henry Pettitt

What is Legislation Day? Dubbed as ‘Legislation Day’ the announcements made by HM Treasury on 20 July included draft legislation, consultation updates and promises of future tax measures as a build-up to Finance Bill 2022. Nothing announced will have immediate...

08/07/21 - Meet the Team at Stephenson Smart in Fakenham

Stephenson Smart accountants opened an office on Oak Street in Fakenham in 1989, with just four members of staff. Now a team of 13, they provide clients with business and tax advice as well as help with VAT and accounting...

07/07/21 - End of business relationship after 53 years

Well-known local painter and decorator, David King is putting down his brushes and retiring from his business after 53 years. Throughout that time David has been a client of Stephenson Smart’s, who have supported him with his accounts and tax...

Entertainment

It’s very simple really. If I have a question, however trivial, Henry will answer it in terms that I understand and put me at ease. He looks after all areas of accounting for us and nothing is ever too much trouble. He may be my accountant, but I also class him as a friend.

Marcelle Swann, Managing Director, Ocean Bay Amusements, Gorleston

Engineering

Stephenson Smart has been our accountancy firm for about four years, looking after our payroll, bookkeeping, tax, management accounts and RND (research and development) tax relief.

We employ 18 people, so as a small business it’s important to be able to put our trust in an accountancy firm. We don’t feel like we are a number, we view Chris as an extension to our team. If I had to sum up Stephenson Smart in one word it would be awesome.

James Campbell, Owner, Microns Precision Engineering, March

Steve Scott Communications, PR and Media

Communications and PR

When you’re in business, it’s very reassuring to have the Stephenson Smart team on your side. Partner Henry Pettitt and his colleagues at the Great Yarmouth office offer a huge amount of expertise that we are able to access quickly and easily to support our day-to-day operations and long term strategy.

What’s particularly refreshing is the way they deliver expert services and professional guidance in such a friendly and approachable way. I would heartily recommend anyone in business to make Stephenson Smart part of their team.

Steve Scott, Managing Director, TMS Media, Great Yarmouth

Farming

When I took over the business I had a bit of a reboot, it was a new generation with new ideas. Having said that I stuck with Stephenson Smart, not because we had been clients since 1922, but because of Claire’s vibrant, conscientious attitude. She looks after a broad spectrum of accountancy for us including tax advice, account preparation and VAT.

There are two certainties in life – death and taxes, so you need to have a good accountant behind you as estate planning is crucial.

Jon Brown, Farmer, Fairfield Farm, Kings Lynn

Construction

Our business has been in our family for 60 years and everything we build is bespoke, therefore when our in-house accountant retired we needed to find the right accountants to work with.

Chris at Stephenson Smart is very easy going, nothing ever seems to be a problem. He looks after all our payroll and books and has become like another employee of the company – that is how we view him.

Rob Knight, Owner, Richard Knight Homes, Wisbech