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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.

As an auto-entrepreneur, you pay a single flat tax, the IFU, of 0.5% of your turnover, with a minimum of 10,000 DA a year. The status stops at 5,000,000 DA of turnover a year. You also pay social contributions to CASNOS.

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.

Every Algerian resident aged 19 or over can buy €750 per calendar year at the official rate for a trip of at least seven days, and €300 for children aged 12 to 18. Since 19 July 2026, the allowance is paid onto an international payment card instead of in cash. Handing it over to someone else or selling it is a foreign exchange offence.

Buying, selling, holding or using crypto assets is illegal in Algeria. The penalty is two months to a year in prison and a fine of 200,000 to 1,000,000 DA, or one of the two (Law 25-10 of 24 July 2025).

Before you believe a "new instruction" going round on WhatsApp or Facebook, check it’s on Banque d’Algérie’s official website. Fake texts do circulate. In August 2026, Banque d’Algérie denied an "Instruction 08-2026" on the travel allowance that it had never issued.