Data-center law in Tunisia

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

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Tunisia has no data-center-specific siting, permitting, or utility statute; a data-center project is governed by the general investment framework of Loi n° 2016-71 du 30 septembre 2016, portant loi de l'investissement.

The Law grants investment premiums and tax incentives keyed to categories such as 'secteurs prioritaires' and 'projets d'intérêt national' that a separate governmental decree defines, rather than naming information technology or data infrastructure as a distinct priority sector in the Law's own text. No provision of the Law addresses electricity grid interconnection, water use, or air emissions specifically.

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Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Public agreements

What fiscal agreements attach a data center to its host jurisdiction?

Investment Law, Incentives and Priority-Sector Grants

In force

Loi n° 2016-71 du 30 septembre 2016, portant loi de l'investissement

Effective 2017-01-01 · Applies to both

Article premier states the Law's aim of promoting investment and encouraging business creation according to national economic priorities, including the development of 'secteurs prioritaires' (priority sectors). Article 2 sets the legal regime for investment carried out by resident or non-resident natural or legal persons across activities classified under the Tunisian activities nomenclature, itself fixed by governmental decree.

Title V (arts. 19-20) sets the incentive regime: article 19 grants investment premiums for value-added and competitiveness, tied to priority sectors and economic sub-sectors that a governmental decree names, while article 20 grants a project classified as being of 'intérêt national' a corporate-tax profit deduction for up to ten years.

That same article 20 also grants such a project an investment premium of up to one-third of the investment cost including on-site infrastructure works, plus State participation in infrastructure expenditure. Neither article, nor any other provision located in the Law's own text, names information technology, data centers, or data infrastructure as a distinct priority sector or national-interest activity; which activities so qualify is left to implementing decree.

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