TALENT'S HOUSE

Talent's House is a firm of chartered accountants and tax advisers accredited by the ITAA under number 50.750.602. Its story began in 1989, in an attic, under the name Fiduciaire Hugues Tenret, later Quiz-tax. The registered office is in Ham-sur-Heure and the offices are in the heart of Charleroi, on rue de Marcinelle, with a presence at Quai10 and Vecteur. The firm cites nearly forty years of experience and has gradually replaced cabinets of paper files with software.

The team is led by Hugues Tenret, managing partner, certified chartered accountant and tax adviser, who has practised accounting since 1986 and holds an accounting diploma and a master's in business law from UCLouvain. His partner is Bruno Righi, a tax-specialist chartered accountant. Around them work accountants, including one who joined in 1996, an administrative manager, a communications officer and several trainees. The firm describes itself as a multidisciplinary team of chartered accountants, tax advisers and a lawyer.

In accounting, the firm sees itself as a partner in steering the business rather than a mere bookkeeper: analysis of results, day-to-day management and decision support for self-employed people and company directors. On tax, it guides clients through personal income tax, corporate income tax and inheritance tax rules, anticipating regulatory changes to reconcile compliance and optimisation.

The legal side runs from formation to transfer: choosing the legal structure, day-to-day advice, and anticipating risks around compliance, employment law or disputes. The advisory side rests on in-depth audits that map the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks of a project or business. The firm thus supports the review of a business formation project, development and growth, transfer and sale, acquisitions and the closure of a business.

Its clients are self-employed people and companies, and the published testimonials come from a garage, a bookshop, a doctor, an architecture practice and a nature education non-profit. The firm pays particular attention to medical professions, with articles on choosing between a company, a non-profit and self-employed status for doctors and dentists, or on balancing dividends and salary. It also covers the VAT regimes for performing artists and garden contractors, flexi-job rules and volunteer allowances for non-profits.

Talent's House follows a people-centred approach with four values: trust, quality, peace of mind and efficiency. It publishes a monthly newsletter and a "Talent in the spotlight" feature about its clients. The firm aims to free its clients from accounting, tax and administrative constraints so they can focus on developing their business.