Around 3,500 electronic cards were issued via the “Auto-entrepreneur” platform in 2025, according to the report by the Finance and Budget Committees of the Assembly of People’s Representatives (ARP) and the National Council of Regions and Districts (CNRD) on the draft State Budget and Economic Budget for 2026.
Since its launch, the platform has received 7,000 membership applications. It targets Tunisians with individual initiatives active in the industry, crafts, trades, commerce, services, and non-commercial professions sectors.
Registration under the auto-entrepreneur status allows individual project holders to benefit from financial, fiscal, and social incentives, as well as training and support programs at every stage of project creation.
Presented on Wednesday during a plenary session devoted to examining next year’s State Budget, the report highlights several advances in employment recorded in 2025, including the update of the National Employment Strategy, the revision of the Labor Code, the development of support programs and entrepreneurship promotion through the “RAÏDET” program and the creation of specific financing lines.
The report also notes that 50,000 young people benefited from active employment programs up to July 2025.
It recalls that a decree was issued in 2025 to facilitate the creation procedures for communitarian companies and grant them advantages such as a ten-year tax exemption, priority access to public property leases, the creation of a digital dashboard (“Rafekni”) for monitoring purposes, and an additional TND 20 million in funding, bringing the total number of communitarian companies to 255 as of August 2025.
In 2026, a support program and guide for communitarian companies will be developed, along with the diversification of their financing sources and the launch of an online platform to promote their products.
The State also aims to improve education quality, promote scientific research, ensure equity in healthcare services, develop childcare and youth programs, expand access to sports activities and enhance cultural heritage and creative industries, all to build a balanced society founded on justice, equity, and sustainable development.
