FISC-PROTECT

Fisc-Protect is an accounting firm at number 25 rue Alfred Dubois in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, in the Brussels Region. This family SME has been active since the late 1960s in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels, and the company is registered with the ITAA under number 50.455.861. The sole proprietorship was set up in 1965 by R.H. Peeters, a commercial engineer and honorary company auditor. His son Rudi Peeters, a commercial engineer, Master of Accountancy and tax accountant, founded the company in 1991. The third generation, Pieter-Jan Peeters, a KU Leuven graduate in accountancy and tax, joined in 2021.

The firm presents itself as its clients' tax accountant and highlights its personal approach, flexibility and direct communication. Its clients include companies, liberal professions, non-profit associations and sole traders. For larger companies, it acts as an extension or sounding board for the in-house accounting department. For smaller businesses, which often lack the expertise internally, it handles all the accounting. First contact is always by appointment, and the firm also meets clients at weekends on request.

Accounting services cover bookkeeping, at the firm or on the client's premises, outsourcing of accounting and tax obligations, VAT monitoring, year-end closing and preparing the annual accounts. The firm also offers budgeting and feasibility studies, as well as tax, social security and legal advice. It issues compilation reports and handles personal income tax files involving foreign income. Its website publishes a detailed tax calendar of deadlines for VAT, payroll withholding tax, social security and advance tax payments.

For business creation, Fisc-Protect takes over the paperwork: financial plan, support with notarial requirements, applying for VAT and company numbers, organising the accounts and help with financing applications. Social security advice is provided in cooperation with an approved payroll office. The firm also focuses on tax audits: it represents and supports clients before the tax authorities, drawing on its knowledge of the law and of their business, on the basis that self-employed people can hardly argue their own case alone.

A distinctive feature is the firm's health and well-being offer. Dr Goedele Dours, Rudi Peeters' wife, joined in 1996, bringing her experience as an occupational physician, environmental coordinator and ICF-certified coach. The firm offers sport and balance programmes tailored to the company, for directors and their staff. On the tools side, it works paperless with the Horus accounting software, linked to the Falco client portal for invoicing, payments, reminders and cash-flow monitoring, with CodaBox for bank statements and e-invoices, and with Scrada for the daily takings book and cash book.