Tunisian Vehicles To Pay 20 Euros Before Entering To Algeria From The Beginning of 2017

Tax on the Tunisian vehicles that will enter the Algerian territory is 20 euros, or about 42 TND, for each vehicle, and this money will be paid at eight border crossings between the two countries that is stretching from Oum Toboul in El Tarf province (eastern Algeria) in the north to Taleb Arabi crossing in El Oued (southern Algeria), informed sources told Echorouk.

“As a complementary measure to impose a fee on the Tunisian vehicles in hard currency, there will be the allocation of a special office of foreign vehicles at each border crossing to collect the amounts of money in hard currency. The fee will rise to the double, or 40 euros, for the trucks and buses that carry foreign numbering panel including Tunisia.”

“A joint ministerial meeting will be held during this week, about the tax fees that will be imposed on the Tunisian vehicles that are wishing to enter the Algerian territory by land, a fee on using the roads in the country, this according to statements that were made by the Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Ramtane Lamamra, about imposing taxation on Tunisian nationals who are wishing to enter the country, in response to the written question by the MP Lakhdar Ben Khellaf from the Front of Justice and Development, about the non-application of political principle of reciprocity with the Tunisian procedure that imposes 30 TND on all Algerian vehicles that enter the Tunisian territory, and 60 TND on the trucks”.

“Joint ministerial meeting will bring together Foreign, Interior and Finance Ministers to determine the application of the tax, and the date of the beginning of its application, and the legal formula that it will take, which is likely to be included in the Finance Act for the year 2017, which preparation will be launched in the next few weeks”.