The Assembly of People’s Representatives (ARP) approved at a plenary session Sunday the proposal for a new article in the draft finance law for 2024, concerning the exemption from road tax (vignette) for buses and vehicles with 8 or 9 seats used by associations that look after people without family support.

The new article grants these associations the same privileges as those stipulated in the VAT Code and the annex to Law No. 62 of 1988 on consumer tax.

MP Saber Masmoudi said the implementation of this measure will help the Tunisian association of SOS Children’s Villages to increase its fleet of vehicles, which currently consists of 7 vehicles spread over 4 centres, adding that the association looks after more than 2,000 children and that this number could increase to 5,000 children by 2025.

The MP pointed out that the budget allocated to the association by the Ministry of the Family, Women, Children and the Elderly does not exceed TND 2.5 million.

He went on to say that the association had managed to
mobilise a budget of TND 12.5 million thanks to donations from Tunisians living abroad.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse