Procedure for creating a natural person business in Algeria
Where should you go?
- Algerian Notary: Click to consult the list of notaries
What are you going to get?
- Rental agreement.
What you need to provide ?
- Birth certificates of lessor and lessee.
- Copies of identity documents of the parties.
- Natural catastrophe insurance.
How long does it last?
- Between 01 and 04 days.
Why is it mandatory?
Where should you go?
- Entity in charge: Tax revenue
- Service concerned: Receipt payment counter
- Open Sunday to Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m./ 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
What are you going to get?
- Payment receipt of 4000.00 DA
How much does it cost ?
- 4 000 DA
How long does it last ?
- Queues: Max. 30 min
- Counter time: Min. 5 min – Max. 10 min
Why is it mandatory?
Where should you go?
- Entity in charge: CNRC partner bank agency (BNA).
- Service concerned: Fiscal stamp payment counter
- Open: Sunday to Thursday (8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. / 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.)
What are you going to get?
- Payment receipt. (Download payment receipt)
How much does it cost ?
- Depending on the number of activities.
How long does it last ?
- Queues: Max. 30 min
- Counter time: Min. 5min – Max. 10 min
Why is it mandatory?
Where should you go?
- Entity in charge: National Trade Register Center (List of CNRC branches)
- Service concerned: Registration desk in the commercial register at the branch level
- Open: Sunday to Thursday (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.)
What are you going to get?
- Trade register.
What you need to provide ?
- Signed application, based on forms provided by the CNRC
- The proof of the premises suitable for receiving a commercial activity by presenting either: a title deed or a rental contract, a concession of a land base to house the commercial activity, or any act or decision of assignment issued by a public body
- Receipt justifying the payment of stamp duties provided for by the legislation in force (4,000 DA)
- Receipt for payment of registration fees in the commercial register as set by the regulations in force, payable at a bank branch (BNA)
How long does it last ?
- Queues: Min. 30min – Max. 60 min
- Counter time: Min. 10min – Max. 20 min
- Wait before next step: Max. 5 days
Why is it mandatory?
- Law No. 04-08 of August 14, 2004, amended and supplemented by Law No. 13-06 of July 23, 2013, relating to the conditions for exercising commercial activities.
Good to know ?
- A signed request, drawn up on C.N.R.C. forms, to be completed in the national language by the person concerned. This form can be obtained from the CNRC counters.
- When it comes to the exercise of a regulated activity, an approval or authorization issued by the competent authorities is required.
- In the case of a foreigner, a copy of the residence card must be presented in the registration file in the commercial register.
- The reservation of a commercial name (denomination) is optional in the case of a natural person, in which case the reservation of the commercial name can be done by the creator or by the notary online.
Where should you go?
- Entity in charge: Tax Inspectorate or CDI (tax center).
- Department concerned: Department responsible for the declaration of existence.
- Open Sunday to Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. / 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
What are you going to get?
- Declaration of existence G8.
- C20 certificate. (Optional).
What you need to provide ?
- A copy of the RC.
- Deed of ownership of the commercial premises or notarized rental contract.
- A form provided by the tax inspectorate, completed, signed and stamped (Download the form)
How long does it last ?
- Wait before next step: Min. 2 days – Max. 4 days
Why is it mandatory?
Good to know ?
- The file must be submitted to the tax inspectorate responsible for your place of activity within 10 days of the creation of the activity.
Where should you go?
- Entity in charge: CASNOS (Agency, Branch, Counter), List of CASNOS branches
- Service concerned: Affiliation and registration service
- Open from Sunday to Thursday: 08:00 to 16:30
What are you going to get?
- CASNOS affiliation and update certificate.
What you need to provide ?
- Copy of the commercial register
- Form provided by the CASNOS branch (Download the form)
How long does it last ?
Queues: Min. 10min – Max. 15 min
Counter time: Min. 5min – Max. 10 min
Why is it mandatory?
- Law 83-14 /July 2, 1983 amended and supplemented
- Executive Decree No. 15-289 of November 14, 2015 relating to the social security of self-employed persons
Good to know ?
- The affiliation file must be submitted to the CASNOS agency or branch responsible for your place of activity within 10 days of the creation of the activity.
Where should you go?
- Request your TIN online: Access the request form
What are you going to get?
- Tax registration certificate
What should you do after registering online?
- To validate your certificate, you must go to the management department on which you depend (your inspection or your CDI or DGE) with these two documents (acknowledgment of receipt and tax registration certificate).
- If all your information is correct, the person in charge of the managing department will affix his stamp and his signature on your certificate; the DGI will publish your NIF on the authentication site https://nif.mfdgi.gov.dz/nif.php
How long does it last ?
Wait before next step: Min. 2 days – Max. 4 days
Why is it mandatory?
Law No. 05-16 of 29 Dhou El Kaada 1426 corresponding to December 31, 2005 on the finance law for 2006
Art. 41: Articles 176 to 178 are established within the code of tax procedures, drafted as follows:
Art. 176 : The Directorate General of Taxes determines the tax identification number of natural and legal persons as well as administrative entities on the occasion:
1 – the annual census of assets, activities and persons defined in article 191 bis of the direct tax code;
2 – the declaration of existence provided for by article 183 or the first subscription of an income tax declaration referred to in articles 99 to 103, 151 and 162 of this code;
3 – the publication in the Official Journal of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria of the creation of any administrative entity endowed with an authorizing officer codified by the General Directorate of Accounting;
4 – the declaration of succession provided for in article 171 of the registration code;
5 – a specific request justified by the insufficiency or the contradiction of the identification elements of the interested party which it has.
In addition, any act, declaration, registration or operation carried out with a tax administration department must be accompanied by the tax identification number so as to ensure the identification of the persons concerned.
Art. 178 : Tax identification numbers are brought to the attention of user organizations and institutions. They are used exclusively:
– to verify the reliability of the identification elements of natural persons appearing in the processing of data relating to the basis, control and recovery of any tax, duty, tax, fee or fine; – for the exercise of the right of communication with the persons listed in articles 45 to 61 of the code of tax procedures.
Art. 42 :The reference to the statistical identification number (NIS) contained in the various tax codes is replaced by that of the tax identification number (NIF). Tax codes are annotated accordingly.
Where should you go?
- Entity in charge: ONS Regional Annex (List of Annexes)
What are you going to get?
- Statistical identification certificate.
What you need to provide ?
- Copy of the tax card (NIF) or certificates of existence
- Copy of the trade register, approval or craftsman’s card
- Birth certificate extract N°12
- The NIS form completed and affixed with the wet stamp of the economic entity (Download the form)
How long does it last ?
Wait before next step: Min. 2 Days – Max. 4 days
Why is it mandatory?
It is recalled that the allocation of the Statistical Identification Number (NIS) is instituted by Executive Decree 97-396 of 26 Joumada Ethania 1418 corresponding to October 28, 1997. Its article 17 charges the central statistics institution, the ONS, with keeping and updating a directory of economic and social agents to whom a Statistical Identification Number (NIS) is assigned.
On the other hand, the ordinances N° 95-27 of 30/12/95 as well as that N° 96-31 of 30/12/96 came to consolidate the preceding texts by making obligation to the national economic operators to use the registration number tax (which is none other than the NIS) and fixing the deadlines for its implementation on 31/12/99.
Ordinance No. 95-27 of 30.12.95 relating to the finance law for the year 1996, stipulates in its article 21 that economic operators carrying out activities under wholesale conditions must support their declarations to the tax services with , among other information, their national identifier and tax article number.
Finally, the law of finances for the year 2002, removed the confusion between the two names of the national identifier (tax number and statistical identification number) to retain only the second name – Number of statistical identification (NIS )-. In addition, any administrative file submitted by an economic agent must contain a copy of the identification notice from the ONS.
Where should you go?
- Entity in charge: Any bank branch in your municipality of residence or the municipality of your head office.
What are you going to get?
- (RIB) bank account statement.
What you need to provide ?
- Copy of the commercial register.
- Copy of (NIF)
- Copy of (NIS)
- Birth certificate extract N°12
- Residence.
- Fill in the forms filled in and affixed with the wet stamp of the economic entity.
How long does it last ?
Wait before next step: Min. 30 Min – Max. 50 Min
Why is it mandatory?
- Receive bill payments.
- Check cashing.