Tunisia
Tunisia: 4 company types, its taxes, banking and business environment, and what it is known for.
Forming a company
Company types in Tunisia
The 4 forms a founder can choose here, each with its own figures. Open one for its sources.
What it is known for
Where Tunisia is in the world’s top 10 on a measure anyone can check, the best rank first. Only the top is shown; a low rank is never stated.
- World’s3rdWorld-leading exports Olive oilOlive oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modifiedUS$1.6 bn · 10.0% of world exports of 145 exporters · 2024 CEPII BACI, January 2026 release See the top 10
A rank is among everything the source reports for that year, so it moves when the source adds or drops economies. Exports include goods passing through for re-export. Nothing here is a recommendation.
Doing business here
Business accounts
Providers whose own published list of countries names Tunisia. A listing means a company formed here may apply, not that it will be accepted.
Not in our records No provider's country list has been read for Tunisia.
EU listings
Two lists a bank checks when it opens an account for a company or its owner.
- EU high-risk third countries (AML)
- Not listed
- EU non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes
- Not listedOfficial EUR-Lex, 52026XG01465, Annex I as of 2026-02-17
Official sites
The authorities’ own sites for Tunisia: where to register, file and check.
Blocs and agreements
The trade arrangements Tunisia belongs to, as each arrangement’s own texts state them: since when, and what each covers. What a membership means for a business is for you to judge.
- African Continental Free Trade Area
- Free trade area · since 27 November 2020
Covers goods, services.
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means a Member State that has ratified or acceded to this Agreement and for which the Agreement is in force
- COMESA Free Trade Area
- Free trade area
Covers goods.
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Burundi and Rwanda joined the FTA on 1st January 2004.
Regional and customs arrangements only, 36 of them; bilateral trade agreements are not yet in our records.
Tax
Company tax
Tax, and what the company owes the registry each year.
- Corporate income tax
- 20%
- Distributions
- Not in our records
- Audit
- Not in our records
- Small-company relief
- Not in our records
- Annual obligations
- Not in our records
- Annual registry fee
- TND 50
VAT
The tax on what the company sells in Tunisia, and when it must register, as the tax authority states it.
- Standard rate
- Not in our recordsThe tax authority’s pages have not been read for Tunisia.
Tax calendar
When the main returns and payments fall due in Tunisia, tax year 2026, as the tax authority states it.
- Corporate tax return
- Not in our records
finances.gov.tn/fr inaccessible when checked
- Corporate tax, final payment
- Not in our records
finances.gov.tn/fr inaccessible when checked
- Corporate tax, instalments
- Not in our records
finances.gov.tn/fr inaccessible when checked
- Personal income-tax return
- Not in our records
finances.gov.tn/fr inaccessible when checked
- Personal income tax, final payment
- Not in our records
finances.gov.tn/fr inaccessible when checked
- Personal income tax, instalments
- Not in our records
finances.gov.tn/fr inaccessible when checked
- VAT return
- Not in our records
finances.gov.tn/fr inaccessible when checked
- Payroll withholding
- Not in our records
finances.gov.tn/fr inaccessible when checked
Running the company
Running a company here
Not in our records The authorities’ pages on running a company have not been read for Tunisia yet.
Economy and trade
What it exports
Goods Tunisia exported, by product, as a share of its goods exports each year. Exports include goods passing through for re-export. A share describes Tunisia’s own trade; it does not compare places.
| Product (HS heading) | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Value, 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors HS 8544 | 13.5% | 15.9% | 15.4% | US$3.6 bn |
| Olive oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified HS 1509 | 4.1% | 3.8% | 7.0% | US$1.6 bn |
| Men's or boys' suits, ensembles, jackets, blazers, trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts (other than swimwear) HS 6203 | 5.6% | 4.3% | 4.2% | US$973 m |
| Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils HS 2710 | 2.7% | 5.1% | 3.1% | US$731 m |
| Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 8701 to 8705 HS 8708 | 2.9% | 2.8% | 2.9% | US$685 m |
| Women's or girls' suits, ensembles, jackets, blazers, dresses, skirts, divided skirts, trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts (other than swimwear) HS 6204 | 3.6% | 2.6% | 2.6% | US$617 m |
| Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp holders and other connectors, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1000 V; connectors for optical fibres, optical fibre bundles or cables HS 8536 | 2.7% | 2.4% | 2.6% | US$616 m |
| Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude HS 2709 | 3.7% | 4.1% | 2.1% | US$481 m |
| Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 3901 to 3914 HS 3926 | 2.2% | 1.7% | 1.9% | US$448 m |
| Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried HS 0804 | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.6% | US$368 m |
Total goods exports, 2024: US$23.3 bn. The ten largest headings are shown.