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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 12 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Auto's Tom Mertens from Zandhoven, company number BE0866977090, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 565 after tax. For that financial year Auto's Tom Mertens recorded a gross margin of € 46,740 and equity of € 164,325. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 5,432 to € 565. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ 164,325
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 565
▼ 90% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 48,799
▲ € 44,226 vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1,666 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
€ 64,324
▼ 20% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 424,478
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 15,037 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 10,785
▼ 74% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 34,898
▲ 8% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 104,472 | € 33,886 | € 90,896 | € 46,740 | ▼ 49% |
| Profit after taxes | € 19,209 | € 1,474 | € 5,432 | € 565 | ▼ 90% |
| Equity | € 161,839 | € 161,713 | € 165,427 | € 164,325 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 631,494 | € 666,068 | € 675,631 | € 574,536 | ▼ 15% |
| Cash | € 35,240 | € 48,989 | € 4,573 | € 48,799 | ▲ € 44,226 |
| Land & buildings | € 146,847 | € 153,452 | € 167,362 | € 170,426 | ▲ 2% |
| Retained profit | € 136,839 | € 136,713 | € 140,427 | € 139,325 | ▼ 1% |
| Dividend | € 1,600 | € 1,600 | € 1,718 | € 1,666 | ▼ 3% |
| Bank debt | € 500,807 | € 460,346 | € 436,579 | € 424,478 | ▼ 3% |
| Balance sheet total | € 793,333 | € 827,781 | € 841,058 | € 738,861 | ▼ 12% |
Key figures of Auto's Tom Mertens, 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 July 2027.
What happened to Auto's Tom Mertens?
What happened at Auto's Tom Mertens in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 565 (▼ 90% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Joannes Verstraeten became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Zandhoven. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- Tom Mertens became a director. NBB
In short
From € 19,209 profit in 2022 to € 565 profit in 2025.
Paid € 24,467 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 19,209 profit.
Paid out € 6,584 in dividends to the owners in total.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind Auto's Tom Mertens are Joannes Verstraeten and Tom Mertens.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Joannes Verstraeten
Director
since 2012
Tom Mertens
Director
since 2004
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Liersebaan 255
2240 Zandhoven
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
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Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0866.977.090
- VAT number
- BE 0866.977.090
- Registered office
- Liersebaan 255, 2240 Zandhoven
- Names & denominations
- Auto's Tom Mertens · ATM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 August 2004
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 7 Dec 2025
- Contact
- autostommertens.be
- Activities · NACE
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