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Originally Posted by Kris
RS: a plate which allows you to have a car in Tunisia and allows you to sell the car to another rs person.
FCR: Import a car and pay tax on it in the range of 18% percent you are allowed one of these. Car will have Tunisian plates.
- A commercial enterprise: Not a internet company or service company. This means somthing easy for the customs to understand like a factory etc.
- Approval from the API: The promotion of industry government body forms to be filled in etc.
- Approval from the Douane: Yes approval again and they can also say no if they like.
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The RS is a just a special case of FCR, so the main term is "FCR", when a Tunisian brings in a car from another country, he can choose between the normal FCR (50% or 75% tax reduction, car can be sold) or the RS (tax exempt, but cannot be sold), the latter is the same RS that foreigners can get as well.
A FCR can only be obtain once in a lifetime when a Tunisian living legally abroad decides to repatriate, multiple other conditions apply (maximum car age is 3 years, his wife is not entitled for an own FCR, etc.).
The rules for RS for foreigners have been strengthened in the past months, they require now eg. offshore companies to have a significant money turn-around which most of the existing companies cannot achieve (actually, many of those companies were only set up to bring 1-5 cars into the country, the required amount is now, I think, in the area of 3000€ per month).
A tourist can bring his car/motorbike (regardless of age) with him and stays tax exempt for 3 months. If he then decides to stay longer in the country, he can prolongue the license 3 times for 3 months each up to a maximum of 12 months altogether and then the car must leave the country for at least 6 months. On the first prolongation one must pay the taxes for the year (including the ones of the first free 3 months). The car will then get a special tunisian number plate, the licenses (permit circulation) have a different color for each 3 months period.
HOWEVER ... certain cars are, when bought in Tunisia, even cheaper than in Europe.
A consulting business is, to my best knowledge, one of the businesses that a foreigner can NOT conduct with Tunisians (but he can do so with non-Tunisians and non-Tunisian companies in Tunisia). They probably consider Internet business a "bodyless" and therefore consulting business - which would not take me wonder, considering the profound non-knowledge and disregard (and governmental suspicioun) of the internet in Tunisia.
So, you should set up an offshore company with consulting services to non-Tunisians or generally outside of Tunisia - or, when your wife is Tunisian, you can go along with a normal Tunisian company in which you would have to hold the minority (but can be an acting director). The internet related businesses are, though, regulated and licensed in multiple ways, at least for the time being...