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Lorraine Maclaine, CPA

Director

Top 5 Things to Know About Lorraine

  • Brings more than 30 years of public accounting experience
  • Advises closely held businesses across multiple industries
  • Focuses on proactive tax planning to help clients avoid surprises
  • Serves real estate, construction, and restaurant businesses
  • Builds trusted relationships through thoughtful, long-term guidance

Lorraine Maclaine works closely with business owners and individuals, helping them navigate tax matters with greater clarity and confidence. She believes being a trusted advisor starts with listening—understanding each client’s goals, concerns, and priorities before developing strategies that support long-term success. Her approachable style helps make tax conversations productive, informative, and far less stressful.

With more than three decades of public accounting experience, Lorraine advises clients in the real estate, construction, and restaurant industries, as well as other closely held businesses. She prepares individual and corporate tax returns while helping clients identify planning opportunities that align with both their business and personal objectives. As a primary point of contact, Lorraine works proactively to address current challenges, anticipate future issues, and help clients understand how evolving tax laws may affect their decisions.

Clients value Lorraine’s steady guidance, practical perspective, and commitment to helping them move forward with confidence through every stage of growth and change.

  • Tax Planning & Compliance
  • Closely Held Businesses
  • Individual Tax Services
  • Corporate Tax Services
  • Real Estate Tax Services
  • Construction Industry Tax Services

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, UNH Peter T. Paul School of Business and Economics
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
  • New England Society of CPAs
Outside of Work

Lorraine lives in North Easton with her husband and their four children.

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