The first meeting
You tell us what you do, your legal form, your tax regime and what worries you. We listen before proposing anything. This meeting costs nothing.
Member of the Tunisian Institute of Chartered Accountants
Chartered accountants in Tunis since 2005. Clients who stay.
Accounting, statutory audit, tax, payroll and company formation for businesses established in Tunisia. One practice in Les Berges du Lac, one person who knows your file, three working languages.
21Years in practice
9Areas of work
3Working languages
OECTInstitute member
The practice
An accountancy practice is judged on two things. Whether its numbers are right, and whether you trust it when the question gets difficult. Since 2005, in Les Berges du Lac, we have held both. Our clients stay because they know who answers the telephone.
What you carry
Running a business in Tunisia means keeping a calendar that never stops.
None of these obligations gives you warning. They arrive every month, every quarter, every year, whether trading is good or not.
The deadlines land every month
VAT, withholding tax, stamp duty, the vocational training levy and the housing fund contribution. One monthly return covers taxes that have nothing to do with each other, and a single omission is enough to trigger late penalties.
The invoice is changing shape
Electronic invoicing through the TTN El Fatoora platform imposes a format, a transmission route and an archiving duty that look nothing like a paper invoice. Many businesses discover the rule only once it already applies to them.
Every payslip commits you
A salary miscalculated, a social security return left incomplete or a contract wrongly classified will come back years later, with surcharges, in front of an inspector or an employment tribunal.
A tax audit is not prepared on the day
It is prepared in the quality of entries posted three years earlier, in the receipts that were filed, and in whether what was declared agrees with what was recorded.
Forming a company takes more than articles
One-stop shop, registration, registered office, publication, tax identification number, social security affiliation. Each step depends on the one before it, and an incomplete file goes back to the start.
The annual accounts arrive too late to decide anything
Accounts closed once a year tell a story that has already ended. A business is steered on current figures, available when the decision is in front of you rather than six months afterwards.
Our services
Nine areas of work, one practice.
From day-to-day bookkeeping to statutory audit, taking in payroll and company formation along the way. One file, one person who knows it.
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Bookkeeping
Your entries kept current and your accounts ready to close.
- Posting and reconciliation
- Books kept current
- Annual financial statements
Statutory audit
The statutory audit of your accounts, carried out independently.
- A statutory engagement
- Strict independence
- Report to shareholders
Tax and VAT
Returns filed on time, and tax choices made with the facts in front of you.
- Monthly return
- Corporation tax
- Tax audit support
Payroll and social security
Payslips that are right and social returns filed on time.
- Monthly payslips
- Social security returns
- Final settlements
TTN electronic invoicing
Moving to electronic invoicing without breaking your sales process.
- El Fatoora platform
- Format and signature
- Compliant archiving
Withholding tax
Withhold the right amount, declare it, and issue the right certificate.
- Rate by type of payment
- Monthly return
- Annual certificates
FODEC levy
The competitiveness development levy, correctly scoped and declared.
- A rate of 1%
- Scope to be established
- Monthly return
Company formation
From choosing the legal form to the first payslip.
- Choice of legal form
- One-stop shop
- Full registration
Registered office
A registered office in Lac 1, and somebody there to take the post.
- An address in Lac 1
- Written contract
- Post received and tracked
How we work
From the first meeting to signed accounts.
A simple method, the same for every file, whatever the size of the business.
No obligation
Taking on the file
We collect what exists, review the last few years, identify what is missing and say so plainly. If the file is coming from another practice, we handle the handover between colleagues.
Day-to-day work
Entries, reconciliations, returns, payslips. Your deadlines sit in our calendar rather than yours. You get your figures when you need them.
Closing the accounts
Financial statements, the tax return package, statutory filing, and a meeting to explain what the accounts say about your business. Accounts nobody talks through are of no use to anyone.
One person
The same person from the first meeting to the signed accounts. No switchboard, no file changing hands.
Professional secrecy
We are bound by professional secrecy under the rules of the profession. What you tell us does not leave the practice.
Three languages
We work in French, English and Arabic, with the Tunisian authorities and with your foreign partners alike.
The practice is registered with the Tunisian Institute of Chartered Accountants and works within the professional framework it sets, which governs independence, professional secrecy, and the strict separation between advisory work and statutory audit.
Twenty-one years
What changes when your accountant has known the file from the beginning.
The value of a chartered accountant is not measured in the first year. It is measured the day a difficult question arrives and the answer already exists, because somebody has followed the business long enough to know where it came from.
21In practiceThe practice has worked with businesses established in Tunisia since 2005.
9Areas of workFrom day-to-day bookkeeping to the statutory audit of accounts.
3Working languagesFrench, English and Arabic, written and spoken.
1Point of contactThe same one, from the first meeting to the signed accounts.
The first year
We learn your business. We take on the history, correct what needs correcting and put the tax calendar in order.
The third year
The accounts are in order and the deadlines are met without anyone thinking about them. The questions move from compliance to decisions: investing, hiring, distributing.
The tenth year
The practice knows your earlier years better than most of the paperwork you have kept. An audit, a sale or a funding round is prepared on a file that is already clean.
Today
Clients who arrived with a company still being formed and who are still here. That is the only statistic this practice is genuinely proud of.
The calendar
A Tunisian tax year, seen from the practice.
This is the rhythm we keep for you. The exact dates depend on your legal form, your tax regime and the finance act in force, and following them is precisely our job.
Every month
The monthly return
VAT, withholding tax, stamp duty, the vocational training levy and the housing fund contribution. One return, several different taxes, one deadline you cannot miss.
Every quarter
Social security returns
Declaration of wages to the national social security fund and payment of contributions, based on the payslips issued during the quarter.
During the year
Instalments on account
Three instalments calculated on the previous year’s tax, paid during the year and then set against the final liability.
Early in the year
The employer’s annual return
A yearly summary of wages paid, fees paid and amounts subject to withholding tax, together with the certificates to be issued to each recipient.
At the year end
The financial statements
Balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and notes, prepared under the Tunisian accounting system for businesses.
After the year end
Corporation tax and statutory filing
Annual tax return, tax return package, approval of the accounts by the general meeting and filing with the national business register.
This calendar is indicative and deliberately carries no dates: they vary with the regime and with each year’s finance act. Ask us for the exact calendar that applies to your company.
Why OAC
What sets us apart comes down to very little.
None of it is dramatic. Together it explains why our clients do not leave.
Twenty-one years at the same work
No diversification, no change of direction. Accountancy, audit and advice, practised since 2005 in the same place.
A person, not a switchboard
You call the practice and speak to somebody who knows your file. Ordinary to say and rare to find.
Advice before the entry
An accounting entry records a decision already taken. We would rather be asked before the decision, while something can still be changed.
Institute member
The practice is registered with the Tunisian Institute of Chartered Accountants and works under its rules on independence, ethics and professional secrecy.
Three working languages
French, English and Arabic. Your foreign shareholders read the same accounts as the Tunisian authorities, without an approximate translation in between.
In Les Berges du Lac
An office you can walk into, put the documents on the table and leave with an answer. Being nearby changes the relationship.
Getting started
Three steps, and the first one is free.
Whether you are forming a company, changing practice or simply want a second opinion, it starts the same way.
Book a meetingYou write or you call
A message, a call to +216 71 963 961, or the form at the bottom of this page. Tell us in two lines what it is about.
We look at your situation
A first meeting at the office or by video call. We look at what you do, your tax regime and your recent years if they exist.
We send you a proposal
The exact scope of the engagement, what is included, what is not, and the fees that go with it. You decide after that, without being pushed.
Contact
Let us talk about your file.
Write to us in French, English or Arabic. We answer every message, including the ones that do not turn into work.
[email protected] +216 71 963 961 +216 71 963 9916 rue Ghar El MelhRésidence Echourouk, office 2-2, second floorLes Berges du Lac 1, 1053Tunis, Tunisia