RM Accountants en belastingconsulenten

RM Accountants & Belastingconsulenten is a firm of accountants and tax advisers on Amerikalei, in the south of Antwerp. It describes itself as an experienced, forward-looking firm whose strength is financial, tax and business advice. Its stated speciality is supporting SMEs, self-employed people and liberal professions, with the aim of building a lasting relationship of trust. Its work is grouped into three areas: accountancy, tax and legal.

The firm presents itself as a reliable sounding board, with whom clients discuss their ideas and goals and who gives clear advice. It stresses coaching for start-ups and fast-growing companies, to avoid impulsive decisions, overly optimistic financial plans and misjudgements. For highly specialised questions, it refers clients to a specialist in its network. It states that it respects the disciplinary rules that apply to company auditors and tax advisers.

On the accounting side, RM Accountants keeps the books, including in the cloud, either at the client's premises or at the office. When clients manage their own administration, the firm helps them optimise and automate it. It prepares the annual accounts in line with the law and supports financial planning, budgeting and periodic reporting, teaching business owners to compare forecasts with actual results. It also offers benchmarking: equity financing, staff cost levels and gross margin compared with companies in the same sector.

The structural side covers choosing a legal form at the start and reviewing it when the business changes, diversifies or grows. The firm supports these restructurings from a tax and legal point of view. A client portal allows company information and documents to be uploaded and consulted, by both the client and the file manager.

On tax, the firm aims to optimise the personal income tax return of self-employed people, creatively and within the limits of the law. It works on pay optimisation and keeping social contributions under control, by combining rates and redirecting income. The corporate income tax return is presented as the end result of advice given throughout the year. For VAT, it acts for fully, partly or exempt VAT-registered businesses, with monthly or quarterly returns, from registration to audit.

The legal area deals with company law: the form of the business, relations between the people involved in it, rights, obligations and liability. The firm also helps draft and review commercial contracts, including international ones: sale, leasing, agency, franchising, transport and concession agreements, and handle related proceedings. It also advises on civil and employment law.

The firm publishes a news section on practical tax questions, such as monthly VAT credit refunds for start-ups, VAT on medical services or keeping the daily receipts book digitally. It regularly recruits junior and medior accountants, which reflects a team that manages files from A to Z, from VAT returns to preparing annual accounts and tax returns. The Exact and Silverfin logos appear on the website.