A & B DEJAEGER

A&B Dejaeger is an accountancy and tax advisory practice on Stormestraat in Waregem, in West Flanders, on the Kortrijk to Ghent axis. The firm introduces itself with a phrase that sets the tone of its practice: an office where tax is a passion. In a trade where most sites announce closeness or digitalisation, claiming a taste for the technical subject first is a positioning in itself.

The stated working principle fits in one sentence: every client, large or small, expects a personal approach. The firm draws a concrete consequence from it rather than a promise, by naming what makes that approach possible, namely qualified staff with an eye for detail. That is a modest formulation, and it describes fairly precisely what separates a well-kept file from a merely compliant one.

The second pillar is continuous training for staff, which the firm explicitly links to the quality of the advice delivered. That link is not rhetorical. Belgian tax law changes several times a year, and a significant share of the rules settles before the courts rather than in the text of the law: an office that does not follow that movement applies, without knowing it, an out-of-date state of the law.

The advisory scope is announced across five areas, which is broad for a practice of this size: accounting, tax, social security, legal and financial. Having social security and legal alongside the other three implies handling questions about staff and the director's status without systematically referring them to a payroll office or a lawyer.

Routine services can be read from the profiles the firm recruits: processing the books, preparing VAT, completing year-end closings and drawing up tax returns, with each manager acting as the first point of contact for their files. That organisation around a named file manager gives the client a contact who knows the file without having to re-read it.

The annual accounts and their filing complete the picture, with the advice to the director that accompanies them. The firm covers self-employed people as well as small companies and larger businesses, as its phrase about clients large or small indicates.

A final word on continuing education, which the firm puts forward. It is not optional: the ITAA imposes an annual quota of training hours on its members, which is monitored and whose breach is a disciplinary matter. What the office claims is therefore not the existence of the obligation but how it treats it: as an investment in the quality of the advice rather than a box to tick. The difference cannot be verified from a website, but it shows on the first technical file.

Waregem sits in the middle of a dense industrial fabric, between textiles, food processing and the logistics of southern West Flanders. For a business in that region, the firm's appeal lies in combining an openly tax-led orientation with broad coverage of adjacent subjects, which avoids assembling an advisory team as soon as a question moves beyond day-to-day bookkeeping.