Recette Virtuelle: Tunis's Online Property-Tax Office

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Since 20 February 2009, residents of Tunis have been able to settle their taxe sur les immeubles bâtis (TIB) online, on a site the municipality built and still operates itself at recettemunicipale.gov.tn. It holds a per-building fiscal register covering all fifteen municipal arrondissements and handles declarations, data updates, objections, address changes, ownership transfers and tax-clearance certificates alongside payment by CIB, Visa, Mastercard or an e-Dinar postal card. Seventeen years on it has barely been touched: it is served over plain HTTP with no working HTTPS, runs on Apache 2.2.11 and PHP 5.2.8 — software released in 2008 — and its news page stops on 1 June 2012. Logging in requires the identifiant and code d'accès printed on the paper tax notice, so the paperless channel still begins with paper. Neither the number of online payments nor the revenue collected through it is published.

Live 📅 since 2009

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

Run byMunicipalité de Tunis — Recette municipale

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 Impact

The only public usage metric is the site's own visit counter. Internet Archive snapshots put it at 20,018 visits in November 2015, 33,301 in August 2018 and 51,992 in June 2020; it read 75,261 in February 2026 and 78,601 when checked on 7 August 2026 — roughly 600 visits a month lately, in a city of about a million. These are page visits, not transactions: no payment count and no revenue figure is published.

🎓 Lesson

A municipal e-service can outlive its own software stack and still be ahead of the country around it — Tunisia's national vehicle-circulation tax only moved online in January 2026, seventeen years after Tunis's property tax. But nothing suggests anyone is still asking whether it deserves a taxpayer's trust: the login page has no HTTPS, and on the same municipal website the page describing the city's government still presents the council elected on 3 July 2018 as current, three years after a presidential decree dissolved every municipal council in Tunisia.

🏛️ Governance Digital government Privacy & personal data

Sources

↗ Recette Virtuelle de la Ville de Tunis — home (French)Operator's own description and ownership: 'La Municipalité de Tunis a créé ce site pour vous faciliter la régularisation de votre situation sur le plan de la fiscalité locale… consulter la situation fiscale de votre immeuble… calculer cette taxe et même vous en acquitter sans vous déplacer.' Nav bar lists the six workflows (Déclaration, Mise à jour, Opposition, Changement adresse, Mutation, Quitus); footer reads 'Copyright © 2009 Municipalité de Tunis'. Arabic twin at accueil-ar.php: 'أحدثت بلدية تونس هذا الموقع'. Fetched 2026-08-07; the same page carries the site visit counter (78,601).

↗ Recette Virtuelle — News pageDates the launch and the abandonment of the news feed. Verbatim: 'News du :2009-02-16 — Lancement — A partir du 20 février 2009 vous pouvez payer vos Taxes sur les immeubles bâtis.' Only three items exist; the most recent is 'News du :2012-06-01 — amnistie'. Sole basis for yearStart 2009.

↗ Recette Virtuelle — «Comment payer votre taxe?»Payment methods and the paper dependency. Verbatim: 'Paiement par e-Dinar… Paiement par carte bancaire. Les cartes admises sont toutes les cartes bancaires nationales portant la marque CIB (cartes inter-bancaires), Visa et MasterCard' and 'sur l'avis de paiement vous trouvez l'identifiant en haut de page et le code d'accès en bas de page'.

↗ Recette Virtuelle — TIB declaration formEvidence for citywide scope and for the per-building register: the 'arrondissement Municipal' dropdown lists exactly the fifteen arrondissements of Tunis (Bab Bhar, Bab Souika, El Hrairia, El Kabaria, El Khadra, El Medina, El Menzah, El Omrane, El Omrane Supérieur, El Ouardia, Ettahrir, Ezzouhour, Jebel Jelloud, Sidi Bechir, Sijoumi), plus street, number, total and covered surface area.

↗ Recette Virtuelle — payment authentication endpointLiveness check, 2026-08-07: responds HTTP 302 with 'location: autent_non_valide.php', i.e. the payment login is running and rejecting empty credentials — not a dead brochure page. The same host's 404 page banners 'Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.8 … Port 8080'; a TLS handshake on port 443 is reset by the server, so there is no working HTTPS.

↗ Internet Archive — recettemunicipale.gov.tn snapshotsSource of the visit-counter series in `impact`: 20,018 (2015-11-24), 33,301 (2018-08-01), 51,992 (2020-06-28), 75,261 (2026-02-19). The CDX index also shows the domain captured continuously since 2004-05-13, i.e. the site predates the 2009 payment launch.

↗ Portail du Gouvernement Tunisien — «Paiement électronique de la taxe sur les immeubles bâtis à la municipalité de Tunis»Independent confirmation that the service is still an officially listed Tunisian online service, named for the Municipality of Tunis specifically. Note the listing still attributes it to the 'Ministère des Affaires Locales et de l'Environnement' and the portal footer reads 'Copyright © 2016'.

↗ Municipalité de Tunis — official websiteShows the portal is still an advertised municipal channel: the side menu item 'القباضة الافتراضية' / 'Recettes virtuelles' links to http://www.recettemunicipale.gov.tn/. The same site's municipalite.aspx page carries the stale sentence used in `lesson`: 'Actuellement, la mairie de Tunis est dirigée par un conseil municipal élu, présidé par Mme Souad Ben Abd El Rahim, pour une durée de cinq ans, depuis le 03 juillet 2018.' Fetched 2026-08-07 (site otherwise current: 2026 budget, June 2026 news).

↗ Kapitalis — «Publication du décret-loi sur les élections des conseils locaux, régionaux et les districts» (10 March 2023)Carries the dissolution of all Tunisian municipal councils, decided 8 March 2023 and published in the JORT of 9 March 2023, with councils 'remplacés par des délégations spéciales rattachées directement au ministère de l'Intérieur'. Supports the `lesson` counterweight only — not any claim about the tax portal.

↗ La Presse de Tunisie — «Tunisie : le paiement de la taxe de circulation désormais possible en ligne» (1 January 2026)Supports the comparison in `lesson`: Tunisia's national vehicle-circulation tax (vignette) only became payable online from 1 January 2026, on taxe-circulation.finances.gov.tn. Different tax and different authority — cited as context, not as a claim about Tunis.

↗ Babnet — «Amnistie fiscale : les taxes municipales payées à distance» (17 May 2006)Shows the channel was announced years before it launched: in May 2006 the municipality listed 'le paiement à travers la recette municipale virtuelle sur Internet www.recettemunicipale.gov.tn' among channels that 'sera bientôt disponible', alongside four physical recettes municipales and three new counters. Payment actually went live 20 February 2009.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Recette Virtuelle: Tunis's Online Property-Tax Office” — Tunis, Tunisia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/tunis-recette-virtuelle/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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