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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 62 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 6.6 to 5.8.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Notaris Bernard Desmet, notarisvennootschap from Nazareth-De Pinte, company number BE0795390496, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 62,967 after tax. For that financial year Notaris Bernard Desmet, notarisvennootschap recorded a gross margin of € 867,460 and equity of € 22,299. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 19,065 to € 62,967. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on May 8, 2026.
€ 22,299
▲ 15% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 62,967
▲ 230% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 244,781
▼ 27% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 60,000 paid out
95 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
5.8
▼ 0.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 512,942
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 88,400 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.6 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 193,319 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 8 years.
€ 39,948
▼ 16% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 118,873
▼ 19% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 884,982 | € 780,555 | € 867,460 | ▲ 11% |
| Profit after taxes | € 66,732 | € 19,065 | € 62,967 | ▲ 230% |
| Equity | € 19,332 | € 19,332 | € 22,299 | ▲ 15% |
| Total debts | € 2,090,753 | € 1,829,292 | € 1,867,549 | ▲ 2% |
| Cash | € 410,392 | € 334,198 | € 244,781 | ▼ 27% |
| Land & buildings | - | - | € 316,600 | |
| Retained profit | € 732 | € 732 | € 3,699 | ▲ € 2,967 |
| Dividend | € 66,000 | € 19,065 | € 60,000 | ▲ 215% |
| Bank debt | € 1,648,213 | € 1,466,761 | € 1,595,153 | ▲ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,110,085 | € 1,848,623 | € 1,889,848 | ▲ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 6.6 | 6 | 5.8 | ▼ 0.2 |
Key figures of Notaris Bernard Desmet, notarisvennootschap, fiscal years 2023 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to Notaris Bernard Desmet, notarisvennootschap?
What happened at Notaris Bernard Desmet, notarisvennootschap in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 62,967 (▲ 230% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Nazareth-De Pinte. KBO
- BURNS BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 66,732 profit in 2023 to € 62,967 profit in 2025.
Paid € 10,860 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 66,732 profit.
On average € 149,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind Notaris Bernard Desmet, notarisvennootschap is BURNS BV.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Bernard Desmet
since 2022
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
's Gravenstraat 193
9810 Nazareth-De Pinte
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0795.390.496
- VAT number
- BE 0795.390.496
- Registered office
- 's Gravenstraat 193, 9810 Nazareth-De Pinte
- Names & denominations
- Notaris Bernard Desmet, notarisvennootschap
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 December 2022
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
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