Financials
Financial year 2025
Thomas Auto from Merchtem, company number BE0400731942, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 169,853 after tax. For that financial year Thomas Auto recorded a gross margin of € 503,517 and equity of € 675,205. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 126,427 to € 169,853. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 21, 2026.
€ 675,205
▲ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 169,853
▲ 34% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 291,772
▲ € 228,648 vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 120,000 paid out
71 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to THOMINVEST (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
3.7
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 215,853
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 58,300 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 207,208
▼ 10% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 195,281
▼ 28% vs 2024
€ 71,908 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 153,037
▼ 59% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 16,506
▼ 20% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 344,267 | € 364,522 | € 521,969 | € 503,517 | ▼ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 38,783 | € 48,089 | € 126,427 | € 169,853 | ▲ 34% |
| Equity | € 575,837 | € 598,926 | € 625,353 | € 675,205 | ▲ 8% |
| Total debts | € 564,591 | € 421,142 | € 764,401 | € 506,462 | ▼ 34% |
| Cash | € 54,034 | € 126,395 | € 63,124 | € 291,772 | ▲ € 228,648 |
| Retained profit | € 513,837 | € 536,926 | € 563,353 | € 613,205 | ▲ 9% |
| Dividend | € 15,000 | € 25,000 | € 100,000 | € 120,000 | ▲ 20% |
| Bank debt | € 309,413 | € 243,693 | € 272,077 | € 195,281 | ▼ 28% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,140,428 | € 1,020,068 | € 1,420,366 | € 1,181,667 | ▼ 17% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.7 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of Thomas Auto, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 May 2027.
What happened to Thomas Auto?
What happened at Thomas Auto in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 169,853 (▲ 34% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Merchtem. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 38,783 profit in 2022 to € 169,853 profit in 2025.
Paid € 48,981 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 169,853 profit.
On average € 136,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of THOMINVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Thomas AutoBehind Thomas Auto are LUTGARDE VERELST and THOMINVEST NV. The shares are held by THOMINVEST (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by JOHAN THOMAS
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brusselsesteenweg 186
1785 Merchtem
Krekelendries 11
1785 Merchtem
Active since 1 August 1953
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0400.731.942
- VAT number
- BE 0400.731.942
- Registered office
- Brusselsesteenweg 186, 1785 Merchtem
- Names & denominations
- Thomas Auto
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 June 1953
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 4 Jan 2026
- Activities · NACE
Algemeen onderhoud en reparatie van auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
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