Soft landing in Algeria: set up your company without traveling

Yes, in every sector except two cases: activities of a strategic character within the meaning of article 50 of the 2020 supplementary Finance Law, whose list in the annex to Executive Decree 21-145 of April 2021 covers energy and mining, pharmaceutical manufacturing except innovative products, transport and transport infrastructure, and defense, and importing for resale in the same state. Both require a 51% Algerian partner, under article 49 of the 2020 supplementary Finance Law as rewritten by article 165 of the Finance Law for 2022. Services, technology, production, construction and consulting are fully open to 100% foreign ownership.

No. Physical identification at the notary and the bank is required from the gérant (the resident legal manager), not from you as shareholder. With your own Algerian appointee or our nominee gérant, the full chain runs without you: notary authorization, provisional bank account, your capital wire, then a power of attorney under which we complete the statutes, publications, CNRC and tax registrations.

We do not put a delivery date in writing, and no one who is honest about Algerian administrative processing can. The calendar is set by third parties: the notary, the CNRC, the AAPI, the bank's KYC review and the legalization chain in your own country. What we commit to is the part we control. Your dossier is complete at the first filing, so it does not come back for a missing piece. Your documents and legalization checklist are prepared before the file opens. You get a status update at every step instead of silence. If a provider guarantees you a number of weeks for a foreign-shareholder incorporation in Algeria, ask what happens when the administration takes longer.

Yes, within the transfer guarantee. Article 8 of Law 22-18 reserves it for investments made from cash capital contributions imported through the banking channel, denominated in a freely convertible currency regularly quoted by the Banque d'Algérie and sold to it, whose amount reaches minimum thresholds determined by reference to the overall cost of the project. It covers the invested capital and the income arising from it, and the real net proceeds of disposal and liquidation. Article 8 of décret exécutif n° 22-300 of 8 September 2022 sets that threshold at 25 % of the amount of the investment in foreign-origin financing. Transferring dividends outside that framework falls under Banque d'Algérie exchange regulations: we review it file by file rather than announce it here.

Corporate income tax (IBS) at 19% for the production of goods, 23% for building, public works and hydraulics as well as tourism and thermal activities excluding travel agencies, and 26% for services, trade, import and every other activity (art. 150-1 of the CIDTA, as enacted by article 46 of the 2022 Finance Act). Where several activities taxed at different rates are carried on at the same time, the profit taxable at each rate is determined by the share of declared or assessed turnover of each activity. VAT at 19% standard. Dividends to non-residents bear a 15% withholding, treaty-reducible: Algeria has tax treaties with China (in force since 2008), Tunisia, France and others, applied file by file. AAPI incentive regimes can grant multi-year exemptions.

No. A gérant is a company director, not a salaried employee, so the salaried work-permit route does not apply. If a foreign gérant wants to live in Algeria, the path is: business visa, incorporation, then the 2-year residence card and the professional card issued by the wilaya. If he prefers to stay abroad, the only rule is presence once every six months, and a resident nominee gérant removes that constraint too. Your expatriate staff are a separate matter: a foreign employee on a salaried contract follows the work-title procedure, which the employing company files, not the worker. We run that track alongside the incorporation, and we walk you through the current requirements on the diagnostic call.

Through our vetted partner domiciliation network for early-stage and pre-revenue files. Activities that require a sectoral agrément are inspected on premises, so they need a real office, which we source through our real-estate partner network before the lease is signed. We deliberately separate foreign-invested entities from our local ecosystem hub: it is a compliance choice that protects your file.

Until 9 July 2026: notarization in your country, authentication by your foreign ministry, then consular legalization at the Algerian embassy. From 9 July 2026, Algeria applies the Hague Apostille, so a single apostille replaces the chain for member states. Algeria acceded by presidential decree 25-217 of 4 August 2025 (Journal officiel no. 55), and under article 12 of the convention an accession takes effect only with states that raised no objection within six months, so consular legalization still applies to a country that objected. In both cases, sworn French translation in Algeria. We send you the exact checklist and templates before you start.