Tunisia public holidays 2026, VAT rate and tax data
Tunisia: VAT rate 19% since 1 Jan 2018; 14 public holidays in 2026 (next: Fête de la Révolution (Revolution Day), 17 Dec 2026); corporate tax rate 20%; minimum wage 554.736 TND/month; policy interest rate 7%; inflation rate (CPI) 5.6%.
12 series, each cited to the official source it was verified against; most recently verified 28 Oct 2026. Currency TND.
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{ "country": "TN", "series": "vat", "value": 19, "unit": "percent", "effective_from": "2018-01-01", "last_confirmed": "2026-07-24", "source": { "name": "Loi n° 2017-66 du 18 décembre 2017, portant loi de finances pour l'an…", "url": "https://lake.jort.tn/journal-officiel/fr/2017/101.pdf" } }
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Tunisia public holidays 2026
14 days in 2026; next: Fête de la Révolution (Revolution Day) on 17 Dec 2026. Official source: Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7 décembre 2021, fixant les jours fériés donnant lieu… · last verified 24 Jul 2026
Fixed by law 2 Confirmed 11 Estimated 1
| Date | Holiday | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan 2026 Thu | Nouvel An (New Year's Day) | Fixed by law | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 20 Mar 2026 Fri | Fête de l'Indépendance (Independence Day) / Aïd El Fitr, 1er jour (1 Chaouel 1447) the two coincide in 2026 |
Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 21 Mar 2026 Sat | Aïd El Fitr, 2e jour | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 22 Mar 2026 Sun | Aïd El Fitr, 3e jour | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 9 Apr 2026 Thu | Journée des Martyrs (Martyrs' Day) | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 1 May 2026 Fri | Fête du Travail (Labour Day) | Fixed by law | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 27 May 2026 Wed | Aïd El Idha, 1er jour (10 Dhou El Hijja 1447) | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 28 May 2026 Thu | Aïd El Idha, 2e jour | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 16 Jun 2026 Tue | Ras El Am El Hejri — Nouvel an de l'Hégire (1er Moharram 1448) | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 25 Jul 2026 Sat | Fête de la République (Republic Day) | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 13 Aug 2026 Thu | Fête de la Femme (National Women's Day) | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 25 Aug 2026 Tue | El Mouled — Mawlid an-Nabawi (12 Rabia I 1448) — PROVISIONAL, see notes | Estimated | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 15 Oct 2026 Thu | Fête de l'Évacuation (Evacuation Day) | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
| 17 Dec 2026 Thu | Fête de la Révolution (Revolution Day) | Confirmed | Décret Présidentiel n° 2021-223 du 7… |
Status is read from the record: fixed by law follows from a standing rule (a fixed date or the Easter computus); confirmed is dated in the cited official calendar and not flagged provisional; estimated is provisional or moon-sighting dependent; substitute stands in for a statutory day that fell on a weekend or was moved. Hover a status for the reason.
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Rate schedules and breakdowns
Withholding tax rates
10–25% across 6 withholding taxes — no single rate · in force from 2021-01-01 · Official source: Ministère des Finances (Tunisie), « Système fiscal tunisien · last verified 17 Sep 2026 secondary
Rates by payment type
| key | label | rate | applies to | effective from | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dividends | Dividends (revenus distribués) | 10 | dividends distributed by Tunisian-resident companies to non-resident, non-established companies, to non-resident individuals (and to resident individuals), withheld as a final tax | 2018-01-01 | The controlling provision is article 52… |
| Rises to 25% where the beneficiary is resident in a listed privileged-tax-regime jurisdiction. Distributions to Tunisian resident companies are exempt. | |||||
| interest | Interest (intérêts) | 20 | interest paid to non-resident, non-established persons generally; excludes interest on deposits and bonds in foreign currency or convertible dinars (exempt) | — | The controlling provision is article 52… |
| See the separate 10% entry for loan interest paid to non-resident banks. Treaty interest articles commonly cap the rate at 10-12%. | |||||
| interest-bank-loans | Interest on loans from non-resident banks | 10 | interest on bank loans granted by banking establishments not established in Tunisia | — | The controlling provision is article 52… |
| royalties | Royalties (redevances) | 15 | royalties for the use of copyrights, patents, trademarks, know-how, equipment and related rights paid to non-resident, non-established persons | — | The controlling provision is article 52… |
| Rises to 25% for beneficiaries in privileged-tax-regime jurisdictions. | |||||
| technical-services | Service fees and other remuneration paid to non-established non-residents | 15 | remuneration and consideration for services of any kind (technical assistance, studies, honoraires and similar) paid to persons neither resident nor established in Tunisia | — | The controlling provision is article 52… |
| Under most treaties, pure service fees without a Tunisian permanent establishment escape Tunisian tax under the business-profits article, so the 15% chiefly bites for non-treaty recipients. Domestic reduced rates (e.g. 10%/3% honoraires) concern resident or established… | |||||
| privileged-tax-regime | Payments to residents of privileged-tax-regime jurisdictions (paradis fiscaux) | 25 | dividends, interest (including to banks), service remuneration, director's fees and similar payments made to persons resident in states or territories with a privileged tax regime, per the list fixed by decree | — | The controlling provision is article 52… |
| The jurisdiction list is fixed by decree and revised periodically - the elevated rate follows the list, not a treaty test. Grossed up to 33.33% where the payer bears the tax. | |||||
Personal income tax brackets (IRPP)
0–40% across 8 bands · in force from 2025-01-01 · Official source: Loi n° 2024-48 du 9 décembre 2024, portant loi de finances pour l'année 2025… · last verified 24 Jul 2026
| min | max | rate |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5000 | 0 |
| 5000 | 10000 | 15 |
| 10000 | 20000 | 25 |
| 20000 | 30000 | 30 |
| 30000 | 40000 | 33 |
| 40000 | 50000 | 36 |
| 50000 | 70000 | 38 |
| 70000 | — | 40 |
Statutory social-insurance contributions
0–12.5% across 7 contribution branches · in force from 2025-01-01 · Official source: Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale (CNSS), Tunisia · last verified 11 Aug 2026 secondary
| key | label | rate total | rate employee | rate employer | unit | base | employer matched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pensions_vieillesse_invalidite_survivants | Pensions de vieillesse, d'invalidité et de survivants / جرايات الشيخوخة والعجز والباقين على قيد الحياة (old-age, invalidity and survivors' pensions) | 12.5 | 4.74 | 7.76 | percent | The CNSS assiette: as CNSS states it, « Les cotisations sont assises sur l'ensemble des éléments des salaires, émoluments, indemnités et tous autres avantages, en espèces ou en nature, liés à la qualité de salarié. Sont entièrement ou partiellement exclus de l'assiette des cotisations les avantages revêtant un caractère de remboursement de frais, d'indemnisation ou d'action sociale, culturelle et sportive au profit du salarié. » The list of excluded advantages and the exemption rates and thresholds are fixed by décret n° 2003-1098 du 19 mai 2003. NO CEILING. | false |
| The largest branch on both sides. Employer pays roughly 1.64 times the employee. Uncapped, so it scales with the whole salary — but the CNSS pension it buys is itself computed on capped reference earnings rules, and a salary above six times the SMIG falls into the separate… | |||||||
| maladie_maternite | Assurance maladie et maternité (CNAM) / التأمين على المرض والولادة (sickness and maternity, including the CNAM health-insurance scheme) | 8.25 | 3.17 | 5.08 | percent | Same uncapped CNSS assiette as the pension branch (décret n° 2003-1098 du 19 mai 2003 for the exclusions). No ceiling. | false |
| Collected by CNSS but funds CNAM, a different institution — one payment, two destinations. Successive increases in this branch are the reason the employee's total moved from 7.75% (2007) to 8.47% (2008) to 9.18% (2009) while the employer's stayed at 16.57% throughout that… | |||||||
| prestations_familiales | Prestations familiales / المنح العائلية (family benefits) | 3.1 | 0.89 | 2.21 | percent | Same uncapped CNSS assiette as the other branches. No ceiling. | false |
| TUNISIA IS UNUSUAL IN THE REGION IN CHARGING THE EMPLOYEE FOR FAMILY BENEFITS. In Morocco and most Gulf schemes family or equivalent benefits are employer-only; here the employee pays 0.89%. An engine ported from a Moroccan or European template will drop that 0.89 points from… | |||||||
| prevoyance_sociale_fonds_special | Prévoyance sociale et Fonds spécial de l'État / الحيطة الاجتماعية والصندوق الخاص للدولة (social provision, including the Loi 74-101 majoration) | 1.9 | 0.38 | 1.52 | percent | Same uncapped CNSS assiette as the other branches. No ceiling. | false |
| A composite line, not a single benefit branch: it gathers the social-provision element and the standing State special-fund majoration (0,50% employer under Loi 74-101, in every version of the rate table since before 1994) into the 1,52% / 0,38% actually declared. Served as one… | |||||||
| assurance_perte_emploi | Fonds d'assurance contre la perte d'emploi pour des motifs économiques / صندوق التأمين على فقدان مواطن الشغل لأسباب اقتصادية (insurance against loss of employment for economic reasons) | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | percent | The declared payroll submitted to CNSS — the same assiette as the other RSNA branches. No ceiling. | true |
| THE NEWEST AND MOST FREQUENTLY MISSING TUNISIAN LINE. It took the RSNA from 25,75% to 26,75% on 1 January 2025 — employer 16,57% to 17,07%, employee 9,18% to 9,68%. Every rate table dated 2024 or earlier is now wrong on both totals, and so is the CNSS website's own contribution… | |||||||
| accidents_travail | Accidents du travail et maladies professionnelles / حوادث الشغل والأمراض المهنية (occupational injury and disease) — employer only, rated by activity | — | 0 | — | percent | Same uncapped CNSS assiette as the other branches. The rate is not a single national figure: it lies between 0,4% and 4% according to the employer's economic activity. | false |
| NOT INCLUDED IN THE HEADLINE 26,75% — this is the single biggest structural trap in Tunisian payroll. The 17,07% employer figure is the RSNA rate BEFORE the occupational-accident charge; the real employer cost is 17,07% plus somewhere between 0,4 and 4 points, so total employer… | |||||||
| regime_complementaire_pension | Régime complémentaire de pension (ex-CAVIS) / نظام الجرايات التكميلي (supplementary pension scheme) — only for adhering establishments, and only on pay above six times the SMIG | 9 | 3 | 6 | percent | ONLY the slice of gross salary exceeding six times the SMIG. Pay at or below six times the SMIG attracts nothing under this scheme, and the slice below the threshold is never included. | false |
| SERVED AS A VISIBLE BRANCH BECAUSE IT IS A REAL PAYROLL LINE FOR HIGHER EARNERS, BUT IT IS NOT UNIVERSAL. Two conditions must both hold: the establishment must have adhered to the scheme, and the employee's gross salary must exceed six times the SMIG. Where they do, an extra 6%… | |||||||
Tax filing deadlines
2 deadline rules · in force from — · Official source: 2 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the… · last verified 21 Oct 2026
| key | tax | obligation | label | frequency | applies to | confidence | last confirmed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vat-return-monthly-companies | vat | return | Déclaration mensuelle TVA — personnes morales | monthly | Legal entities (personnes morales) liable to VAT that do not use the DGI tele-declaration and remote-payment system | primary | 2026-10-21 | Ministère des Finances |
| The source says the monthly VAT declaration is filed 'durant les vingt-huit premiers jours' of each month, i.e. by the 28th of the month after the period. It describes the filing only, not payment. The DGI 2026 agenda shows an earlier last day, the 20th, for companies using… | ||||||||
| vat-return-monthly-individuals | vat | return | Déclaration mensuelle TVA — personnes physiques | monthly | Individuals (personnes physiques) liable to VAT | primary | 2026-10-21 | Ministère des Finances |
| Filing only; the source does not describe payment. Consistent with the DGI 2026 agenda, which lists individuals' monthly declarations on 16 Oct (15 Oct is a public holiday), 16 Nov (15 Nov is a Sunday) and 15 Dec. | ||||||||
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