Registering with CASNOS as a self-employed person

Registration puts you in the social security scheme for non-salaried workers. It is what gives you health cover and pension rights for the activity you run on your own account. Without it, you also cannot obtain the CASNOS up-to-date certificate (attestation de mise à jour), which administrations and public tenders often ask for.

CASNOS gives you a registration number. You keep it: if you later start another activity, you declare it, but your number stays the same.

to register after the activity starts

10 days

of the yearly base (7.5% social insurance, 7.5% pension)

15%

minimum yearly contribution (minimum wage of 24,000 DA)

43,200 DA

deadline to declare your contribution base

1 March

optional yearly flat fee for self-entrepreneurs

24,000 DA

Every non-salaried person who works on their own account must register. In practice:

• a trader registered in the trade register (registre du commerce) as an individual;
• the majority managing partner of a SARL, and the sole partner who manages an EURL;
• the partners of an SNC (general partnership), who have trader status;
• a craftsperson holding a craftsman card;
• liberal professions (doctor, lawyer, architect, licensed consultant...);
• a farmer holding a farmer card;
• a self-entrepreneur (auto-entrepreneur) listed in the national register.

Registration is personal. In a company, each person concerned has their own number and pays their own contribution.

1. 1

   Gather the documents

   Identity card, trade register extract (or licence, craftsman card), articles of association if you are in a company, residence certificate and certificate of existence. Scan them as readable PDFs.

2. 2

   Write down the deadline

   Count 10 days from the date on your proof of activity. Do not wait for other steps: the period is already running.

3. 3

   Open Damancom or go to the office

   On Damancom, choose the registration request. At the office, ask for the non-salaried registration form.

4. 4

   Fill in your civil status

   Surname and first names exactly as on the birth certificate, 18-digit NIN, date and place of birth, home address.

5. 5

   Fill in the activity

   Trade register or licence number, activity title and code, legal form, creation and start dates, business address.

6. 6

   Attach the proof and send

   Add the proof of activity. Check every field before confirming, then keep the confirmation or receipt.

7. 7

   Diary your deadlines

   Declare your base before 1 March and pay before 30 June, every year. Once you are up to date, request your up-to-date certificate.

Online, on Damancom

The CASNOS Damancom portal offers a remote registration request in three steps: civil status, contact details, then details of the activity (trade register or licence number, activity title and code, legal form, creation and start dates, address). You then attach proof of the activity.

At a CASNOS office

You can also file at the CASNOS office covering your place of business, meaning the address in the trade register. For a company using a domiciliation address, this is the registered office address.

If you start a new activity at another address, go to the office for that location and say that you are already registered.

What Neuron does

You can do everything yourself with this guide, for free: Neuron does not fill in this form. To hand over the whole business setup, full support costs 50,000 DA for a sole trader and 60,000 DA for a company, 10,000 DA less with domiciliation at Neuron (official fees excluded).

You have 10 days from the start of the activity. For CASNOS, the start date is the date on your proof of activity: trade register extract, licence, craftsman card or farmer card.

Late registration can lead to a late-filing penalty. The period runs even if you have no client and no turnover yet.

• Waiting for the NIF or NIS before registering: the 10-day period starts from the trade register date, not from the end of other steps.
• Assuming every SARL manager goes to CASNOS: a paid minority or non-partner manager normally falls under CNAS.
• Writing your name differently from the birth certificate, or getting one character of the trade register number wrong.
• Thinking registration is enough: you must then declare your base before 1 March and pay before 30 June, every year.
• Relying on the old 32,400 DA minimum: since decree 26-257, the minimum follows the yearly minimum wage.
• Not declaring a new activity or a change of business address.