One company. One question:
how do you take the money out?
You are the company — management company, consultant or freelancer in an SRL/BV. Every legal route — salary, VVPRbis, liquidation reserve, EIP, VAPZ, company car, home‑office rent, copyright, EV charging — compared per euro of profit, with the article behind each figure. From your actual books.
- Pay yourself right
- Cash set aside for the tax bill
- Quarterly VAT from the books
- Hear the law change first
Pay yourself
OptimisedCash forecast
13 weeks aheadVAT set‑aside € 8.420 · 20 Oct
Official filings
Prepared automaticallyCorporate tax 2025 · annual accounts · filed
Sales brief
ActivateHiring 3 field technicians — this month
Optimised across every legal route. Grounded in Belgian law.
Every route to pay yourself has a price per euro and a legal limit. Counzel fills the cheapest routes first, up to their limit, from your actual books.
- Limits enforced, not suggested — the € 51.000 salary condition, the 80 % pension rule, arm's‑length rent, the 30/70 copyright cap.
- Every figure carries its article. The full calculation is one click away.
What reaches you, per € 100 of profit, by route
Every rule checkedA dividend is taxed twice — the company first, then you. Pay the company can deduct is taxed once. Counzel moves your profit from the first path to the second, up to each route's legal limit.
▸ Show the full calculation
| Lever | Today | Optimised | Belgian rule checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross salary | € 36.000 | € 44.000 | ✓ € 51.000, or the taxable profit if lower, unlocks the 20 % corporate rate · art. 215 CIR 92 |
| Home‑office rent | € 0 | € 4.800 | ✓ Arm's‑length, below the requalification threshold · art. 32 |
| Copyright income | € 0 | € 18.900 | ✓ Within the 30/70 cap on salary · art. 17 §1 5° |
| EIP pension | € 0 | € 5.300 | ✓ Within the 80 % rule · deferred, not taxed now |
| Flat expense allowance | — | € 600 | ✓ Tax‑free · costs substantiated |
| EV home charging | € 0 | € 3.000 | ✓ CREG rate · company EV required |
| Dividend · ordinary, 30 % | € 63.000 | € 0 | Replaced by VVPRbis |
| Dividend · VVPRbis, 18 % | € 0 | € 43.500 | ✓ Reserves built since 2024 · art. 269 §2 |
| Liquidation reserve | € 0 | — | Tested · slower to reach you than VVPRbis for this profile · art. 184quater |
| Corporate tax | € 21.000 | € 8.700 | 25 % → 20 %: the salary condition met, the levers deductible |
| Your taxes & social charges | € 30.800 | € 25.400 | Incl. 18 % on the VVPRbis dividend |
| Total taxes | € 51.800 | € 34.000 | 43 % → 28 % of the same profit |
| In your pocket now | € 68.200 | € 80.700 | + € 12.500 · plus € 4.500 into your pension |
Every legal combination is tested against the rule that binds it; the one that puts most in your account wins. Each figure links to its article. Example data.
The rules move. Hear it before it costs you.
Regulatory watch reads what changed and tells you whether it touches your company — with the source, not a newsletter.
- 1 July 2026
VVPRbis withholding 15 % → 18 %
Qualifying reserves distributed before the date keep 15 %; after it, the optimiser re‑prices every dividend route.
- Income year 2026
Minimum remuneration for the 20 % rate: € 51.000
A salary below the condition costs five points of corporate tax on the whole base — the single biggest lever for a one‑person company.
- Reserves built from 2026
Liquidation reserve: 6,5 % after 3 years
Shorter wait, higher levy. Whether it still beats VVPRbis depends on when you need the cash — the optimiser ranks both.
- Every income year
Copyright income: what still qualifies
Software work sits outside the regime; for what qualifies, the 30/70 cap against salary is checked, not assumed.
Examples of what Regulatory watch surfaces for a company like yours — each item carries its source in the product.
See the VAT bill in July, not in October.
- Actuals from the ledger, then a 13‑week forecast — with a likely range, not a single number.
- Seasonally adjusted from your own history; anomalies flagged against your twelve‑month baseline.
- VAT and tax set‑asides placed on the forecast, with their dates.
- Ask a question in words, get a chart, keep it.
- Plan the year on the same numbers — budget, hires, actual against plan.
Illustrative cash · 13-week forecast
Example dataEvery official filing, prepared automatically from your books.
- The moment a period closes, the filing is computed from your entries — nothing re‑typed.
- The official Intervat controls run on their own; only exceptions reach you.
- VAT, client and intra‑community listings, corporate tax, annual accounts, tax slips — in the file format each authority expects.
- You review and submit. Counzel never files without you.
- Hear the law change before it costs you.
Illustrative filing calendar
Example statuses| Filing | Authority | Due | |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAT return · Q3 [71] to pay € 4.452 · 10 controls pass | Intervat | 20 Oct | Prepared · ready to file |
| Intra‑community listing · Q3 One partner VAT number to confirm | Intervat | 20 Oct | Needs your review |
| Corporate tax advance · Q4 Avoids the surcharge | FPS Finance | 10 Dec | Set aside € 12.300 |
| Corporate tax return · 2025 Reduced rate confirmed · art. 215 | Biztax | 30 Sep | Completed · example |
| Annual accounts · 2025 Micro model · XBRL | NBB · CBSO | 31 Jul | Completed · example |
| Annual client listing · 2025 Belgian clients over € 250 | Intervat | 31 Mar | Completed · example |
Ask it anything about your company.
It answers from your ledger and from Belgian law — and shows you both. By keyboard or by voice.
How much can I still distribute this year under VVPRbis?
art. 269 §2 CIR 92 · Programme Act 2026
Counzel removes the grind. You keep the decisions.
Let's run a pilot on your own books.
If it shows you nothing about your company you didn't already know, you've lost nothing. If it does, you found it before it cost you.
Free pilot · no card · one or two companies · you decide on rollout.