Country pack

maintained

Belgium

Belgien (de) · België (nl)

Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Belgium pack carries the chart of accounts (PCMN — plan comptable minimum normalisé, 355 accounts), 4 tax rates in EUR, the periodic return (Déclaration périodique à la TVA, 31 boxes), and the peppol-bis-3 e-invoicing profile. Last checked on 2026-09-16 against 15 texts of law and official sources.

Country code
BE
Currency
EUR
Pack version
1.15.0
Last checked
2026-09-16
Set up Ekwo for Belgium

What the pack carries

Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
  • default (default) — 355 accounts, for companies
  • asbl — 351 accounts, for nonprofits
TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
22 taxes at rates of 0, 6, 12, 21
domestic, domestic_reverse_charge, exempt, export, import, intracom_acquisition_goods, intracom_acquisition_services, intracom_goods, intracom_services
Periodic declarationThe form the ledger is read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
  • BE-VAT-PERIODIC — 31 boxes, filed month or quarter
When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
  • day 20 of the month after the period
The file it is deposited asThe brick of packages/formats that writes it, where one exists.
Electronic invoicingThe profile the country imposes, the day it starts, and the text that imposes it.
peppol-bis-3 — mandatory from 2026-01-01

Loi du 6 février 2024 modifiant le Code de la TVA, art. 53, § 2 — facturation électronique structurée entre assujettis établis en Belgique à partir du 1er janvier 2026

Where the tax balance landsThe accounts a filed declaration settles to, by role.
  • payable 451900
  • receivable 411900
Bank statementsThe formats this country’s banks send, and whether anything here reads them.
  • coda — read
  • camt.053 — read
Payment filesThe formats the country’s banks accept for an outgoing payment.
pain.001
Financial statementsThe schemes the chart reports on, and the taxonomy their keys are written against.
  • BE-BNB-ABBR-BS — 31 lines, nbb-cbso:26.0
  • BE-BNB-ABBR-IS — 16 lines, nbb-cbso:26.0
  • BE-BNB-ABBR-AF — 6 lines, nbb-cbso:26.0
Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
maintained no named reviewer
15 sources cited
Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
2026-09-16
Pack versionWhat this pack calls itself, the day it says its transcription is true, and the languages it publishes.
1.15.0 — published 2026-09-19
fr, nl, de, en

Free, and operated

Where the open core stops.

The line is operational, not functional. Everything that keeps working on its own is open core; what needs credentials, a certificate or a channel somebody keeps running is the hosted edition.

BE-VAT-PERIODICdeclaration

Free, for everComputed from the ledger, frozen box by box, written as vat-consignment, and what it owes is carried to 451900. The deposit number and the administration’s own words come back into your own database.

OperatedTransmission: the credentials, the certificate and a channel somebody keeps running. The return stays yours.

peppol-bis-3einvoicing

Free, for everAn invoice is written and validated as peppol-bis-3 by a brick of packages/formats, and read back the same way.

OperatedSending and receiving over Peppol: a certified access point and a certificate.

codabank statement

Free, for everA coda file the bank hands over is read and matched against the ledger.

OperatedFetching the statement without being handed it: a PSD2 aggregator contract.

camt.053bank statement

Free, for everA camt.053 file the bank hands over is read and matched against the ledger.

OperatedFetching the statement without being handed it: a PSD2 aggregator contract.

What it was built from

15 sources — the law this pack was read against

Your books in Belgium, on Ekwo.

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