Agricultural Accountants in Norfolk

Written and reviewed by the Agricultural Accountants editorial team. Last reviewed 27 July 2026.

Norfolk is big-arable country, cereals, sugar beet and oilseed rape on the light Breckland soils, with vegetables, outdoor pigs and poultry alongside. Like its neighbour Lincolnshire it farms at scale, and the pig and poultry enterprises add their own tax character.

Machinery-heavy cropping and volatile pig and grain markets make allowances and averaging the everyday tools.

Arable Scale, Pigs and Poultry

A Norfolk arable and pig or poultry business is capital-intensive: machinery, grain stores and livestock housing all need funding, and the Annual Investment Allowance and Structures and Buildings Allowance decide how quickly that spending is relieved. Pig and poultry prices swing hard, so averaging matters as much as it does on the grain side, as our guide to averaging explains.

Bringing the cropping and the livestock into one farming business, with the allowances timed across a big capital programme, is the core of the accounts work here.

Succession on Large East Anglian Farms

Norfolk has large family and corporate farms where the land and business values can exceed the £2.5 million allowance, so the inheritance-tax reform is a live planning issue rather than a distant worry. Above the allowance the effective rate is 20%, and on a substantial estate that is worth structuring for.

Where the farm runs as a company, Business Property Relief on the trading business shares the allowance with Agricultural Property Relief on the land, as our guide to Business Property Relief sets out.

What we do for Norfolk business owners

Accountants for Farmers

The everyday accountancy for a working farm, done by someone who knows farming, not a high-street generalist.

Farm Accounts and Returns

The annual accounts and return for the farm, prepared from your records and filed on time.

Succession and IHT Planning

Working out the inheritance-tax position on the farm and planning the succession, at the current £2.5m position.

Rural Business Accountants

For estates and diversified farms where the income is mixed and the reliefs need protecting.

Making Tax Digital

The Making Tax Digital software set up and the quarterly updates filed, so the deadlines are not yours to carry.

Common questions

How are outdoor pigs and poultry taxed alongside our arable?

As one farming business. The livestock housing and equipment attract capital allowances, and volatile pig and poultry prices make averaging worthwhile. It is all brought into one set of accounts so the reliefs work together.

Do you act for larger corporate farms?

Yes. We prepare the company accounts and corporation tax return with the personal returns, and handle the succession and Business Property Relief position, which on a large East Anglian farm is where the real planning is.