Getting paid from abroad

The simplest legal way to invoice a foreign client and keep your earnings in foreign currency is to register as an auto-entrepreneur, open a trader’s foreign currency account and declare each project to your bank before you’re paid. The paperwork takes a few days. After that, you pay 0.5% tax on your turnover.

The auto-entrepreneur status is your legal way in to invoicing foreign clients in your own name. You register online on the portal of ANAE, the national auto-entrepreneur agency, and you get an answer within three working days.

With your auto-entrepreneur card, you can open a trader’s account in dinars and in foreign currency without registering with the trade register. Three documents are enough, and your export earnings go into the account in full, in foreign currency.

Do you sell digital services online to foreign clients? You don’t need to register each contract with your bank. A simple declaration filed with your bank before you’re paid is enough. Skip it, and your earnings arrive in dinars instead of foreign currency.

No, as long as you declare your project to your bank and bring the money home on time. Then every euro or dollar lands in your foreign currency account. Your bank converts it to dinars in only two cases: you skipped the declaration, or the money came home late.