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Summary of Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs - Tunisia Profile

Core Content

The Doing Business 2018 report by the World Bank Group evaluates the regulatory environment for businesses in 190 economies, focusing on key areas such as starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. It also includes labor market regulation indicators. The report provides objective data to help economies reform and improve their business climate.

Key Indicators and Performance in Tunisia

Main Views and Findings

• Comparative Data: The report compares Tunisia's performance with other economies in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region, OECD high-income countries, and the global best performers.
• Ease of Doing Business: Tunisia's ranking and distance to frontier (DTF) scores are used to evaluate the ease of doing business and the potential for regulatory reform.
• Standardized Scenarios: The report uses standardized scenarios to ensure comparability across economies. These include a 100% domestically owned limited liability company, a warehouse for general storage, and a set of assumptions about the company's operations, ownership, and procedures.
• Regulatory Challenges: Tunisia faces challenges in terms of procedures, time, and cost for both starting a business and dealing with construction permits. These are higher than the global best performers and OECD high-income countries.
• Gender Differences: The report highlights that procedures for women and men are similar, but some economies may have different requirements, which can impact the time and cost involved.

Key Information

• DTF Measure: The distance to frontier (DTF) score indicates how far an economy is from the best performance observed on each indicator. A score of 0 represents the lowest performance, while 100 represents the frontier.
• Ease of Doing Business Ranking: The ranking is determined by sorting the aggregate DTF scores, with 1 being the best and 190 the worst.
• Methodology: The report uses a standardized methodology to collect and analyze data. It assumes that all required information is readily available and that no bribes are paid.
• Online Procedures: Online procedures are counted as 0.5 days in the total time calculation.
• Tunisia's Economy Profile: Tunisia is classified as a lower middle-income economy with a population of 11,403,248 and a GNI per capita of $3,690. The report focuses on the city of Tunis.

Business Regulation Details

Starting a Business in Tunisia

• Procedure 1: Deposit the capital in a bank account opened in the name of the company.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: No charge

• Procedure 2: Register the Articles of Association with the tax administration at the One-Stop Shop.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: TND 150

• Procedure 3: File declaration of existence with the Tax Authorities and obtain a Tax ID.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: No charge

• Procedure 4: Deposit documents at the Court.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: TND 50

• Procedure 5: Register with the Commercial Registry.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: TND 10 per excé

• Procedure 6: Register for Social Security.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: TND 5

• Procedure 7: File a declaration with the Labor Inspectorate.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: No charge

• Procedure 8: Make a company seal.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: TND 14

Dealing with Construction Permits in Tunisia

• Procedure 1: Obtain a soil test report for technical control.

  • Time: 10 days
  • Cost: TND 13,500

• Procedure 2: Obtain topographical study of the construction site.

  • Time: 7 days
  • Cost: TND 800

• Procedure 3: Obtain tax clearance certificate.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: No charge

• Procedure 4: Submit project brief to the National Agency for Environmental Protection.

  • Time: 1 day
  • Cost: TND 1,200

• Procedure 5: Submit building plans for review by the Inspection Bureau.

  • Time: 7 days
  • Cost: TND 3,805

• Procedure 6: Obtain building permit.

  • Time: 28 days
  • Cost: TND 900 |

The report underscores the importance of regulatory reform to improve the ease of doing business, with a focus on reducing the number of procedures, time, and cost for local firms. It also emphasizes the role of transparency and efficiency in regulatory processes.