FGR comptabilité et fiscalité

FGR Comptabilité et Fiscalité is a firm of accountants and tax advisers on rue de Chestret, in central Liège. Established in 2017, it has advised clients for almost ten years on setting up their business and following it through its life. It works with self-employed people, SMEs and larger companies, whether they want to go self-employed, set up a company, sell it or grow it.

The office stresses the relationship of trust. It points out that the word fiduciary refers to this idea and says it sees the relationship in terms of duration, quality and ethics. The team meets clients several times a year to talk, review and plan ahead, so that business owners can focus on their activity. It takes care of the tax and financial structuring, the forecast budget, credit applications and organising the accounts.

In accounting, FGR organises, keeps or supervises the books, records digitised documents and assists clients with set-up formalities at the business one-stop shop and for VAT. It prepares interim statements, annual accounts both internal and in National Bank format, helps set and monitor budgets and builds dashboards. It applies the accounting and financial law of small, medium-sized and large companies.

Tax is approached in a multidisciplinary way: VAT, personal income tax, corporate income tax, social contributions, registration, gift and inheritance duties. The office drafts personal income tax and corporate income tax returns, assists and defends clients during tax and VAT audits and follows up disputes. It advises on tax planning and structuring, structuring property acquisitions, optimising pay packages, wealth and inheritance tax, profit distribution strategy and the director's personal taxation.

For VAT, the team prepares returns and other formalities, handles foreign VAT refunds, advises on applying the legislation and sets up VAT groups for groups of companies. The stated aim is optimal management of the VAT deductions the business is entitled to.

Management advice covers business creation, from formalities to articles of association and dealings with the notary, financial and cash flow plans, budgeting and detecting cash problems, investment planning, analysing whether to incorporate and the sale or acquisition of companies and businesses. In line with the Code of Companies and Associations, the office also carries out certain statutory assignments: the incorporation financial plan, liquidation reports and merger or demerger operations. Finally, it helps submit subsidy applications to the Walloon Region.