GEVIMAR

Gevimar is an accounting and tax firm set up as a private limited company on Broelkaai in Harelbeke. It is registered with the ITAA under number 50.482.941. The firm is run by three ITAA-registered directors, Geert Viaene, Gregory Cousin and Tom Coussement. It says it focuses on three dimensions at once: the business, the entrepreneur and the person, with their dreams and expectations. Clarity and humanity are the values it claims, using plain language rather than specialist jargon.

The team has around twenty staff: client advisers, client managers, file preparers, a paralegal and management assistants. The website lists them alphabetically by first name, with their direct line and e-mail address, and points out that there is no phone menu when you call. Gevimar describes a relaxed, family atmosphere, far from the cliché of the out-of-touch accountant. Its clients range from start-ups to experienced managers of small SMEs, and the website publishes testimonials and interviews with clients such as an IT networking company or a young brand of organic sauces.

Bookkeeping and tax are the firm's daily work, for sole traders and companies alike. Carefully kept accounts serve as the basis for clearly communicated advice. Gevimar publishes an annual tax calendar of deadlines and follows current developments, such as the modernisation of the VAT chain on 1 May 2026, with the current account replaced by a provision account and the end of tolerance periods, or the VAT rate on heating boilers.

Beyond this, the firm offers legal advice: articles of association, publications in the Belgian Official Gazette, leases and general terms and conditions. It carries out feasibility studies to check the financial viability of planned investments, and supports restructurings: moving from sole trader to company, demergers or mergers. It also helps set a fair price when selling a business or shares, and advises on estate planning to prepare the next generation.

Finally, Gevimar offers to act as a sounding board for the entrepreneur: thinking ahead with them and giving guidance. Its website directs visitors according to their situation: starting out part-time, full-time or as a company, or, for established self-employed people, looking for an accountant, practical advice or someone to talk things through with.

The office is open on weekdays, closing slightly earlier on Thursday and Friday, or by appointment, and offers a free first meeting without obligation.

According to the website, the team shares one passion: showing entrepreneurs the right figures, being a sounding board and giving strategic advice. A client quoted on the home page sums up the approach: for him the figures are only an interim score, and what matters is the end goal the firm helps him reach in his business and his life. Gevimar is recruiting client managers to strengthen the team.