Tax revenues collected by the Tunisian government had increased by 7.7%, at the end of the first quarter of the current year, compared to the same quarter in 2024, reaching 11.2 billion dinars.
Of this total, 8.7 billion dinars came from domestic taxation and 2.5 billion dinars from customs duties.
According to provisional results from the state budget at the end of March, this increase is the result of a 10.4% rise in direct taxes and a 5.7% rise in indirect taxes.
Direct taxes amounted to 4.9 billion dinars. In detail, income taxes increased by 6.2% to 3.2 billion dinars, including 2.2 billion dinars in payroll taxes (an increase of 2.3%).
Revenue from corporate taxes totaled 1.66 billion dinars (an increase of 19.5%), divided between taxes on non-oil companies (1.5 billion dinars, an increase of 54%) and taxes on oil companies (132 million dinars, a decrease of 67%).
Indirect taxes totaled 6.3 billion dinars. This growth of 5.7% was mainly due to a 22% increase in customs duties to 548 million dinars and a 6.1% increase in VAT to 2.7 billion dinars.
Conversely, excise duties fell by 2.6% to 898 million dinars.
It should be noted that the 2025 Finance Law forecasts tax revenues of around 45.2 billion dinars for the 2025 financial year, which is an increase of 8.4% compared to 2024 and 17% compared to 2022.
