How to register as an auto-entrepreneur in Algeria (ANAE card), step by step

To get the auto-entrepreneur card you register online at anae.dz, pick your activity from the official list, and ANAE notifies you of the decision electronically. The decree sets a maximum of three working days; ANAE itself advertises an average of 12 to 24 hours. The card is only the start: within 30 days you also need your tax identification number (NIF) from the tax office.

Before you start

Three conditions are enough under Law 22-23: you have reached the legal working age, you are Algerian and resident in Algeria (or a resident foreigner, under the regulations), and your activity is on the list of eligible activities. On the registration form the nationality offered is currently “Algerian”, with a note that other nationalities will follow.

The list has seven domains: consulting, expertise and training; digital services; personal services; home services; leisure and recreation; services to businesses; culture, communication and audiovisual. Liberal professions, regulated professions and activities, and crafts are excluded. Each activity has a six-digit code, the first two digits being the domain, and the decree requires you to use that reference list. Once registered you can add other activities, but only within the same domain.

One thing has changed: the statistical identification number (NIS) is no longer required to operate or to open a bank account, according to ANAE note 133/2024 of 1 October 2024.

On the platform

The form asks for your name and first name (first name in Latin letters), your nationality and a password of at least eight characters mixing three character types. You accept the privacy policy, which refers to Law 18-07 on personal data. The administrative file and the information form are defined by the platform itself, so we cannot give you a fixed list of papers here.

The application is filed against a receipt. If it is rejected, or if you are removed later, you have 30 days to appeal to the minister in charge of start-ups, who has 30 days to answer.

Within 30 days of the card

Law 22-23 requires two things. A declaration of existence at the tax office (form G no. 8) to get your NIF, within 30 days of the card, with a 30,000 DA tax fine for being late according to the DGI. And CASNOS affiliation. Plan for the register of receipts and expenses stamped by the tax office too: for a service provider the DGI describes a daily book of professional receipts, and having no register is fined 10,000 DA.

Every year you will also have to file with ANAE an administrative certificate issued by the tax office showing your turnover for the year.

What we could not confirm

Any registration fee, the exact list of documents in the administrative file and the platform screens are not in any open source we read. The platform decides them, and we have not created an account.

What comes next: the general auto-entrepreneur guide, then the G12 and G12 bis calendar and CASNOS.