Kroucht, Abdelouahed

Comptagest is the accounting practice of Abdelouahed Kroucht, based at Boulevard Paepsem 18A in Anderlecht, under enterprise number 0803.186.031 and ITAA registration 50.263.477. The firm trades under the line "the portal of accountants and the business", a phrase that describes fairly precisely how its site is built.

Five ways in, by profile

Rather than listing services, the site organises its offering by client type: company, start-up, self-employed, liberal profession and private individual. That split is useful because the questions do not resemble each other from one category to the next. A self-employed individual chooses each year between flat-rate and actual expenses; a company falls under corporate income tax, must file its annual accounts within seven months of the year-end, and has to pay its director in a way that is decided, between salary and dividend.

Submitting documents

The firm describes its way of working in three moves: scan the documents, send them to the platform, follow the company's position without travelling. That describes a continuous incoming flow rather than a quarterly folder, and the difference shows above all in deadlines: a VAT return is prepared on data already entered instead of being reconstructed in the days before it falls due.

An openly published resource centre

This is the site's most visible feature. Alongside the service pages, the firm publishes a newsletter, a monthly file, practical commentaries, template letters, a calendar of deadlines and calculation tools. Few practices of this size maintain documentation of that kind, and maintaining it has a cost: an out-of-date tax calendar is worse than none.

Why the calendar matters

Belgian deadlines are numerous and staggered: monthly or quarterly VAT returns, the annual listing of taxable customers, income tax returns, advance payments spread over four quarters, filing of the accounts. Missing most of them costs a fixed penalty, regardless of the amount at stake, and late filing of the annual accounts is charged by the National Bank on a scale that rises with the delay.

Support for new businesses

The start-up page announces tax and legal advice, contact with the bank for administrative steps, and the filing of returns with the competent authorities. Going through the bank is a concrete step founders underestimate: opening the account and obtaining the deposit certificate govern the visit to the notary, and banking timescales are not always the ones hoped for.

What the ITAA number guarantees

A number in the 50 series corresponds to an accredited legal entity. Registration requires professional indemnity insurance, adherence to a code of conduct, monitored continuing education and, since 2020, a written engagement letter with every client. The ITAA public register lets anyone check free of charge that a professional appears there, in what capacity and since when, and it takes under a minute.