What people look for, and where to find it here

declaration of existence series G no. 8 NIF online NIS form form G8 tax office thirty-day deadline signature specimen tax identification certificate statistical identification number tax file documents التصريح بالوجود رقم التعريف الجبائي الرقم الإحصائي certificate of existence C20 tax card taxpayer's stamp statutory registers payroll ledger stamped and initialled staff register CASNOS affiliation opening a bank account cheque book CIB card CNRC activity code ANAE activities flat tax or actual regime نموذج الإمضاء

The declaration of existence, in one sentence

It is the filing by which a business makes itself known to the tax authorities at the moment it starts trading. It is made on the official form series G no. 08/2024, with the tax inspectorate covering the address of the registered office. The tool above reproduces that form and fills it in from your data; it does not lodge it for you.

Two mistakes come up constantly, and the tool watches for both: a company name that differs by a single character from the one on the commercial register, and a principal activity code that does not match the one entered in the online NIF application. The first costs a cascade of corrections that reaches as far as the notary; the second can still be put right while the NIF has not been issued, and becomes painful afterwards.

Not to be confused: the declaration of existence and the certificate of existence (C20)

The two names look alike, the documents have nothing in common. The declaration of existence is the series G no. 8 form that you lodge with the authorities when business starts — that is what this tool fills in. The certificate of existence, known as the C20, is a document the authorities issue to you afterwards, on written request to the managing centre: it certifies that you are duly registered and in good standing, and carries the NIF, the address and the tax regime. You ask for it when a partner, a bank or a principal requires proof of your tax existence — and it is one of the documents accepted for obtaining the NIS.

The deadline: thirty days, running from what?

Thirty days from the start of business — in practice, the registration date shown on the commercial register extract. Taking any other date needlessly reopens the argument about when the clock started. The basis is article 51 of the Turnover Taxes Code and article 183 of the Direct Taxes and Assimilated Levies Code. The tool's countdown runs from that date.

The NIF: the online application, then the paper file

The NIF has fifteen digits for a principal taxpayer — twenty for a secondary establishment, the principal's fifteen followed by a suffix. The application is lodged on the Directorate General of Taxes portal, nifenligne.mf.gov.dz.

The portal issues two documents, at two different moments. The acknowledgement of receipt appears immediately and carries the application number (in the form E…CW): note it down, it is not sent a second time and it is what you use to follow progress. The tax identification certificate can only be issued once the application has been processed. Both are printed and taken to the counter.

Entering the application online is not enough, and it is not immediately followed by a trip to the counter: the application must first be processed. Only then is the paper file assembled and lodged with the structure you report to — tax centre (CDI), inspectorate, or DGE for large enterprises — determined by the address of the registered office. That file leads with the declaration of existence and includes the certified signature specimen among its documents; the NIF and the tax card are issued at the end of it. That is step 3 of the route above.

What the file lodged at the inspectorate contains

The exact list varies from one inspectorate to another — Algiers-Centre is not necessarily Oran. The common core: the declaration of existence filled in, stamped and signed; two copies of the articles of association; two copies of the commercial register extract; proof of the registered office with its amendments; the birth certificate and proof of residence of the representative; and the certified signature specimen. The tool prints that list, adjusted to the legal form you have chosen.

The signature specimen

It is the sheet on which the legal representative signs before the authority that certifies the signature. It is not a separate formality: it forms part of the NIF application file, the one lodged at the tax centre or the inspectorate once the online application has been accepted. A file without a certified specimen is incomplete. It is of no use to the bank, however: when the account is opened, the branch hands over its own signature card, which the manager signs at the counter. The practical consequence: have several copies certified at once — one goes with the tax file, the others stay in reserve. Going back for certification two months later because one copy is missing is avoidable lost time — and a non-resident manager, who must have the signature certified at the consulate, makes the oversight expensive.

The stamp, not just the signature

The form carries the wording "stamp and signature of the taxpayer". A declaration that is signed but not stamped is turned away at the counter. So the stamp is ordered before the filing, not on the day itself.

The NIS: the third identifier

The statistical identification number also has fifteen digits. It is issued by the National Statistics Office under the national register of economic and social agents created by executive decree no. 97-396. It presupposes the commercial register and proof of tax existence: the tax card (NIF) or, failing that, the certificate of existence is enough.

Two points people often discover after a wasted trip: the file is lodged at the ONS regional annex covering the location of the entity — Centre, East, West or South — and not at the head office in Algiers or at the CNRC; and issuance is free, in about a week. What an intermediary charges pays for their service, not for the administration.

Its form has three requirements people often discover at the counter: it is written in capital letters, it requires the entity's stamp, and it makes the permanent headcount and the last financial year's turnover mandatory. Two figures worth preparing before setting off. The tool fills in and prints this form as well.

The statutory registers: two authorities, not one

The law imposes ten special books and registers on employing organisations in the economic sector. They are not stamped in the same place, and that is where most of the back-and-forth comes from.

  1. Centralising journal — court registry
  2. Inventory ledger — court registry
  3. Payroll ledger — court registry (article 14 of executive decree no. 96-98)
  4. Paid leave register — labour inspectorate
  5. Staff register — labour inspectorate
  6. Foreign workers register — labour inspectorate
  7. Register of technical inspections of industrial installations and equipment — labour inspectorate
  8. Occupational health, safety and medicine register — labour inspectorate
  9. Accidents at work register — labour inspectorate
  10. Register of the labour inspector's observations and formal notices — labour inspectorate

The file to present is the same at both counters: a copy of the commercial register, a copy of the NIF, a copy of the manager's ID, and the company's wet stamp — the stamp itself, applied on the spot, not a scanned image. One more reason to order the stamp early: it is already needed for the declaration of existence.

Cost also separates the two counters: each register stamped at the court carries a 3,000 DA duty stamp — 9,000 DA for the three — whereas stamping at the labour inspectorate costs nothing. Get the duty stamps before you set off.

In other words: the first three at the court registry, the other seven at the territorially competent labour inspectorate, as article 15 of executive decree no. 96-98 of 6 March 1996 provides. Stamping and initialling take place before the first entry, and the registers are produced whenever the labour inspector asks for them — not prepared on the day of the inspection.

Next: CASNOS, registers, bank

Once the tax file has been lodged, three tasks open up in this order. CASNOS affiliation of the manager or the operator, within ten days, now done online on e-CASNOS — the CASNOS calculator gives the contribution to expect. The statutory registers, stamped and initialled before the first entry — accounting books and payroll ledger at the court registry, employment registers at the labour inspectorate (details above). Then the bank account, which requires all three identifiers together: commercial register, NIF and NIS. The account-opening file is prepared in parallel.

The cheque book and the CIB card come after the account is opened. Production time runs into weeks: ask for them on the day the account is opened, not on the day you need them. The CIB card is what makes online payment possible, in particular for the tax e-services.

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Sources and legal texts

  • Article 51 of the Turnover Taxes Code — deadline for the declaration of existence
  • Article 183 of the Direct Taxes and Assimilated Levies Code — filing obligation
  • Official form series G no. 08/2024 — Directorate General of Taxes
  • Executive decree no. 97-396 of 28 October 1997 — statistical identification number and national register of economic and social agents
  • Executive decree no. 96-98 of 6 March 1996 — list and content of the special books and registers mandatory for employers; article 14 (payroll ledger at the court registry) and article 15 (the other registers at the labour inspectorate)
  • Legislative decree no. 94-01 of 15 January 1994 — statistical system, statistical confidentiality
  • National Statistics Office — NIS allocation procedure and allocation of NIS services among the regional annexes
  • Portals: nifenligne.mf.gov.dz · mfdgi.gov.dz · sidjilcom.cnrc.dz · ons.dz · casnos.com.dz · joradp.dz
  • Content verified on 9 September 2026 against the sources above.

Deadlines and lists of documents are indicative and vary with the wilaya, the inspectorate and the year's finance act. This tool prepares documents; it replaces neither the administration nor professional advice. Reference scope: wilaya of Algiers.