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Recette Virtuelle: Tunis's Online Property-Tax Office

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Tunis put its property tax online in February 2009 and then left it there. It still works — on 2008-vintage software, over plain HTTP, with a login code you can only get off the paper tax bill.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byMunicipalité de Tunis — Recette municipale
Scale🏙️ City-wide

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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

📊 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.

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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 pagePublished 1 June 2012Dates 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.
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↗ 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.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2009. 4 of 11 sources carry a publication date, from 17 May 2006 to 1 January 2026.

When the sources were published

  1. Babnet · pressBabnet — «Amnistie fiscale : les taxes municipales payées à distance» (17 May 2006)
  2. Recette Municipale (Tunisia) · national governmentRecette Virtuelle — News page
  3. Kapitalis · pressKapitalis — «Publication du décret-loi sur les élections des conseils locaux, régionaux et les districts» (10 March 2023)
  4. La Presse de Tunisie · pressLa Presse de Tunisie — «Tunisie : le paiement de la taxe de circulation désormais possible en ligne» (1 January 2026)

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What happened to this record

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Evidence Passport · public beta 4 addressable claims, 11 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-53a7efb7f7eae58e quantitative
its news page stops on 1 June 2012
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The site's news page carries that stamp as its newest item, above older entries from 2010.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Recette Virtuelle — News page
Claim 2 clm-b0c80c7ae5482e11 quantitative
Tunisia's national vehicle-circulation tax only moved online in January 2026, seventeen years after Tunis's property tax
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The 1 January 2026 report announces exactly that move, which is the comparison the lesson draws.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. La Presse de Tunisie — «Tunisie : le paiement de la taxe de circulation désormais possible en ligne» (1 January 2026)
Claim 3 clm-89fd87017cf8d97a quantitative
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
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Kapitalis reports the decree-law that reorganised local councils after their dissolution; the municipality's own site still shows the 2018 council.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Kapitalis — «Publication du décret-loi sur les élections des conseils locaux, régionaux et les districts» (10 March 2023)
  2. Municipalité de Tunis — official website
Claim 4 clm-1bfdea83f16da787 quantitative
Internet Archive snapshots put it at 20,018 visits in November 2015, 33,301 in August 2018 and 51,992 in June 2020
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The three figures are read from dated Wayback captures of the site's own visit counter; the capture index page itself states no such number, so there is no single passage to point at.
Caveat
A counter of page visits, not transactions — the entry says so in the same breath.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Internet Archive — recettemunicipale.gov.tn snapshots
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-20-evidence-baseline effective 2026-08-07 · created 2026-08-20

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Municipalité de Tunis — Recette municipale
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
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Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

11 source dossiers

Recette Virtuelle de la Ville de Tunis — home (French) recettemunicipale.gov.tn · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-bb383f265ce1401c
Publisher
Name not classified · recettemunicipale.gov.tn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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).

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Recette Virtuelle — News page recettemunicipale.gov.tn · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-0cd9fa2b7e3d8b5b
Publisher
Name not classified · recettemunicipale.gov.tn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2012-06-01
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Dates 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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Recette Virtuelle — «Comment payer votre taxe?» recettemunicipale.gov.tn · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-b1a013c167c04016
Publisher
Name not classified · recettemunicipale.gov.tn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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'.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Recette Virtuelle — TIB declaration form recettemunicipale.gov.tn · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-779d1c244476efc9
Publisher
Name not classified · recettemunicipale.gov.tn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Evidence 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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Recette Virtuelle — payment authentication endpoint recettemunicipale.gov.tn · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-7750f1d41c376ad6
Publisher
Name not classified · recettemunicipale.gov.tn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Liveness 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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Internet Archive — recettemunicipale.gov.tn snapshots web.archive.org · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-2a92528a4cb34a2c
Publisher
Name not classified · web.archive.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Source 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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Portail du Gouvernement Tunisien — «Paiement électronique de la taxe sur les immeubles bâtis à la municipalité de Tunis» fr.tunisie.gov.tn · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-3c90a71537c9ebde
Publisher
Name not classified · fr.tunisie.gov.tn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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'.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Municipalité de Tunis — official website commune-tunis.gov.tn · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-82e7ca7f4891099b
Publisher
Name not classified · commune-tunis.gov.tn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Shows 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).

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Kapitalis — «Publication du décret-loi sur les élections des conseils locaux, régionaux et les districts» (10 March 2023) kapitalis.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-ce93241da9a1cfab
Publisher
Name not classified · kapitalis.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-03-10
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
La Presse de Tunisie — «Tunisie : le paiement de la taxe de circulation désormais possible en ligne» (1 January 2026) lapresse.tn · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-efa3e93c2a17bd73
Publisher
Name not classified · lapresse.tn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-01-01
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Babnet — «Amnistie fiscale : les taxes municipales payées à distance» (17 May 2006) babnet.net · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-26323817d84d9122
Publisher
Name not classified · babnet.net
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2006-05-17
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-07
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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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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