Our accounting partner
Who Handles Your Accounting? Meet SmartTaxBG
Start in BG does not keep your books or submit your tax filings. For ongoing accounting we work with SmartTaxBG. This page explains who SmartTaxBG is, who is responsible for what, and how the handoff works — before you decide.
SmartTaxBG contracts as an independent party. SmartTaxBG is not part of Start in BG, and Start in BG is not your accounting provider.
The relationship in 30 seconds
One project does not mean one provider. These three columns show who does which part.
Start in BG — we coordinate
- Clarifies the operational requirement: activity, VAT status, document volume, staff.
- Prepares the handover and makes the introduction to SmartTaxBG.
- Supports the communication in German or English.
- Keeps track of the handover's open items.
SmartTaxBG — they provide the professional service
- Assesses the professional scope of the enquiry.
- Confirms scope and fee before the engagement starts.
- Performs the bookkeeping, filings and deadlines under the engagement.
- Invoices its own service directly.
You — you appoint and provide
- Decide whether to appoint SmartTaxBG.
- Approve scope and fee before the engagement begins.
- Provide records through the agreed process.
- Keep Start in BG informed where coordination is needed.
One project does not mean one provider. Responsibility follows the work.
Who is SmartTaxBG?
SmartTaxBG is the accounting partner named on the Company Formation page's partnership badge, and the partner Start in BG works with for Bulgarian accounting and VAT.
Start in BG's own, independently maintained provider comparison last checked SmartTaxBG's website on 2026-07-17: a Germany/Bulgaria-facing consultancy with full English and German content and reported Bulgarian-language support.
What the comparison entry finds
- Website
- smarttaxbg.com
- Languages
- english · german · bulgarian
- Relationship to Start in BG
- Named partner (formation and accounting)
- Last checked
- 2026-07-17
- Registered legal name
- Smart Tax Consulting Ltd (Смарт Такс Консултинг ООД)
- EIK / UIC number
- 205594021
Legal status: checked against the Commercial Register
SmartTaxBG's registered legal entity name and Bulgarian EIK/UIC number have been checked against the Bulgarian Commercial Register (Търговски регистър) and are confirmed: SmartTaxBG trades as Smart Tax Consulting Ltd (Смарт Такс Консултинг ООД), EIK 205594021. Checked on 2026-08-16 against the public register extract on papagal.bg, which mirrors data from the Bulgarian Registry Agency — source linked below.
Sources for these facts
What SmartTaxBG can cover
Ongoing bookkeeping, VAT, annual accounts, payroll, authority communication within the engagement, the handover after formation, and switching from an existing accountant.
Nothing here is guaranteed for every engagement. The actual scope is confirmed case by case, not promised on this page.
How the handoff works
Six steps from your first answers to the ongoing engagement.
Step 1: You tell us what the company does
Activity, VAT status, document volume, staff and customer geography.
Step 2: Start in BG prepares the brief
Obvious gaps are cleared up before SmartTaxBG sees the enquiry.
Step 3: SmartTaxBG reviews the professional scope
SmartTaxBG decides what it can take on and what information it still needs.
Step 4: You receive the scope and fee
SmartTaxBG states the professional scope and fee before any engagement begins.
Step 5: You appoint SmartTaxBG
The engagement starts only once you accept the offer.
Step 6: Start in BG tracks the operational handover
Formation documents, open items and responsibilities are handed over cleanly.
What Start in BG sees before the handoff
To assess the right route, Start in BG needs basic operational information — not accounting records.
What we ask before the handoff
- Company status
- Business activity
- VAT status
- approximate document volume
- whether you employ staff
- where your customers are
- when accounting should start
Please do not send tax records, invoices, identity documents or bank statements through this form. The partner will request what it needs under its own engagement.
Once an engagement exists, SmartTaxBG tells you which records it needs and how they should be transferred.
Do you have to use SmartTaxBG?
No.
If you already have a Bulgarian accountant you want to keep, Start in BG completes the formation and hands over to them cleanly instead.
If your needs fall outside the scope SmartTaxBG confirms, another appropriate provider may be needed.
What SmartTaxBG does not become simply because it is our partner
Not Start in BG
SmartTaxBG is an independent provider.
Not your tax adviser in another country by default
Bulgarian accounting does not replace advice required in another jurisdiction.
Not automatically appointed
An introduction or a formation project does not by itself create an accounting engagement.
Why we work this way
A Bulgarian company needs more than a successful registration. The real operating relationship begins with accounting, banking and recurring compliance after the Commercial Register entry. We prefer a named professional handoff over the common formula where “accounting included” stays one vague line in a package. You should know before incorporation who maintains the books, who invoices for it, and who carries the professional responsibility.
See for yourself
You do not have to rely on Start in BG's description.
Ready to decide?
Forming a company? We can include the accounting handoff directly in the formation enquiry. Already running your Bulgarian company? Use the accounting assessment directly — you will see the scope and fee before you appoint SmartTaxBG.
Last editorial review: 2026-08-16 · The partnership and the publicly available facts about SmartTaxBG are reviewed regularly.