--- title: "Tunisia gambling licensing, cost and supervision | advennt.io" canonical: https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/tunisia/ source_html: /jurisdictions/tn/index.html description: "Tunisia gambling regulation by game: 2 open · 13 closed · 5 uncertain." generated_at: 2026-10-26T22:03:01Z content_sha256: f359ed98d82746dba862242ef51859ef468549697dbe8a6dd558579c36a69012 generator: "fe-fleet/md-twin@1.0" --- # Tunisia gambling licensing, cost and supervision | advennt.io [Jurisdictions](/jurisdictions/) › Tunisia # Tunisia National jurisdiction No compliant entry route; closed monopoly market with tightening criminalisation — do not enter. [2 open · 13 closed · 5 uncertain → 20 classes](#products) Collected 25 Oct 2026 · Published 26 Oct 2026 · Changed 25 Oct 2026 [PDF](report.pdf) [Sign in for PDF](https://advennt.io/auth/) [Compare](/compare/?j=tunisia) ## Can we offer our product? Every product class, in fixed taxonomy order. The band is what you can do; where the recorded legal status says something the band does not, it is shown beside the product. ### Player products - CasinoProhibited · Models agreeXClosed - PokerProhibited · Models agreeXClosed - BingoProhibited · Models agreeXClosed - LotteryState monopolyXClosed - Sports bettingState monopolyXClosed - Other event bettingProhibited · Models agreeXClosed - Horse and greyhound racing bettingGrey zone · Contested?Uncertain - Esports bettingProhibited · Models agreeXClosed - Exchange bettingProhibited · Models agreeXClosed - Pool bettingProhibited · ContestedXClosedVaries by form · 1Horse racing pool: grey_zone - Virtual event bettingProhibited · Models agreeXClosed - Fantasy sportsGrey zone · Models agree?Uncertain - Skill gamesGrey zone · Models agree?UncertainVaries by form · 1Pure skill: outside_perimeter - Prediction marketsGrey zone · Models agree?Uncertain - SweepstakesGrey zone · Contested?Uncertain - Free playOutside the regulatory perimeter · Models agreeOOpen ### Supply roles - Software / B2BProhibitedXClosed - Affiliate marketingProhibitedXClosed - Payments for gamblingModels agreeOOpen ### Settlement rail - Crypto gamblingProhibitedXClosed Class-level certainty is graded for 15 of 20 classes. ## Board briefing Tunisia is a closed, monopoly-plus-tourist-casino jurisdiction with no private online route and a tightening reform direction. #### What has changed - In December 2025 and January 2026 two restrictive draft laws emerged: a 23-MP bill to amend Décret-loi 74-20 and a Ministry of Youth & Sports revision. Both pursue suppression of offshore online gambling — mandatory ISP/PSP blocking, fines up to 500,000 TND and 1–5 year prison terms — rather than a licensing regime. #### What to do now - Do not pursue B2C or B2B entry; no compliant pathway exists and criminal exposure is set to rise. Treat any Tunisian-facing offshore activity as high-risk for payment de-risking and prospective criminalisation. The only legal land-based route (tourist casino) is administratively closed in practice. #### What to watch - Parliamentary progress of the January 2026 bill and Council of Ministers review of the Youth & Sports draft. Enactment would convert today's passive tolerance into active criminalisation and payment blocking. ## 11 answers, each dated and graded The weather grades favourability for an operator, not legality: legality is the product table above. The left rule is our confidence: solid confirmed, dashed probable, dotted uncertain. 01 · What kind of market is this? ### Overview Unfavourable The principal development for Tunisia is a draft 2027 Finance Bill provision, article 24 paragraph 3, that would raise the tax rate on online games and competitions conducted via communication or ICT means from 40 percent to 60 percent. The provision amends article 17 of Law n°48/2024 as previously … Full analysis · 136 words The principal development for Tunisia is a draft 2027 Finance Bill provision, article 24 paragraph 3, that would raise the tax rate on online games and competitions conducted via communication or ICT means from 40 percent to 60 percent. The provision amends article 17 of Law n°48/2024 as previously amended by the 2026 Finance Law, and is reported across multiple Tunisian outlets covering the national budget process, dated 15 and 16 October 2026. The bill has not been adopted by parliament and the provision's own Journal Officiel text was not directly retrieved. No other material development in licensing, enforcement, technical compliance, platform rules, commercial activity, or market structure was found in this window. A separate deputies' bill, 2026/009, which would criminalise all gambling including online gambling, remains before the General Legislation Committee with no dated progress. - No private online licensing route - Islamic social constraints on liberalisation (~2% moral-acceptability) - Forthcoming criminalisation/suppression bill - Merchant-category payment restriction Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/overview/) 02 · Can we get a licence? ### Licensing and regulation Unfavourable Decree-Law No. 74-20 of 24 October 1974, on fairground installations, parlour games and lotteries, approved by Law No. 96 of the same year, is the sole governing instrument and remains in force unchanged. It criminalises games of chance and lottery schemes generally, carving out only a narrow exempt… Full analysis · 137 words Decree-Law No. 74-20 of 24 October 1974, on fairground installations, parlour games and lotteries, approved by Law No. 96 of the same year, is the sole governing instrument and remains in force unchanged. It criminalises games of chance and lottery schemes generally, carving out only a narrow exemption for land-based casinos restricted to foreign tourists under a tightly controlled regime. No licensing framework exists for online betting or online casino. Draft law 09/2026, filed by twenty-three deputies on 19 January 2026 and referred to the Commission de la legislation generale on 29 January 2026, would redefine jeux de hasard to explicitly capture physical and digital chance-based financial gain, impose a default prohibition subject to narrow exceptions, and add a chapter criminalising electronic and digital money games. The bill has not been enacted and remains at committee stage. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/licensing/) 03 · How hard is entry, really? ### Market entry in practice Unfavourable There is no legal market-entry path for private gambling operators. The Promosport concession is not open to private bid, casino authorisations are rarely issued and tourist-only, and no liberalisation pathway is anticipated — the sole legislative motion is suppression-oriented. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/market-entry/) 04 · What do the licences cost? ### Licence fees Unfavourable No fee regime applies to private operators because no private online licensing route exists. Casino authorisation and Promosport concession terms are set administratively and are not published. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/fees/) 05 · What is the tax take? ### Tax Unfavourable No tax regime is open to private online operators. Reported fiscal touchpoints: standard VAT 19%; a 25% withholding on gambling winnings; and a 2021 finance-law flat 15% tax on the gross operating margin of betting/gambling/lottery organisers introduced as an anti-grey-market measure. Casinos and Pr… Full analysis · 49 words No tax regime is open to private online operators. Reported fiscal touchpoints: standard VAT 19%; a 25% withholding on gambling winnings; and a 2021 finance-law flat 15% tax on the gross operating margin of betting/gambling/lottery organisers introduced as an anti-grey-market measure. Casinos and Promosport are taxed as Tunisian companies. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/taxes/) 06 · Can we move player money? ### Payments and banking Unfavourable Gambling is a blacklisted/restricted merchant category for Tunisian acquirers, and onboarding gambling merchants typically results in immediate rejection. The BCT supervises banks and PSPs and enforces strict FX controls; foreign PSPs cannot operate directly without local licensing. A 2018 BCT state… Full analysis · 56 words Gambling is a blacklisted/restricted merchant category for Tunisian acquirers, and onboarding gambling merchants typically results in immediate rejection. The BCT supervises banks and PSPs and enforces strict FX controls; foreign PSPs cannot operate directly without local licensing. A 2018 BCT statement criminalises unauthorised virtual-currency activity. The 2026 bill would compel payment institutions to block gambling-linked transactions. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/payments/) 07 · Can we advertise? ### Marketing Unfavourable Only Promosport and the licensed tourist casinos may legally market their products. All marketing of private or offshore gambling to Tunisian residents is prohibited, and Arabic-language affiliate/social marketing of offshore brands is illegal. The 2026 bill would extend penalties to advertisers and… Full analysis · 43 words Only Promosport and the licensed tourist casinos may legally market their products. All marketing of private or offshore gambling to Tunisian residents is prohibited, and Arabic-language affiliate/social marketing of offshore brands is illegal. The 2026 bill would extend penalties to advertisers and facilitators. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/marketing/) 08 · What must the platform meet? ### Technical compliance Unfavourable No technical compliance developments were evidenced this cycle for Tunisia; no RNG certification, server-location, or technical-standards framework specific to gambling was located in the record. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/technical/) 09 · Can we ship through apps and platforms? ### Distribution and platforms Unfavourable No distribution- or platform-specific rules, such as app-store restrictions, ISP blocking, or affiliate-marketing platform rules, were evidenced this cycle for Tunisia. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/distribution/) 10 · How hard does the regulator enforce? ### Enforcement Mixed Enforcement in Tunisia has historically been described as suppression-oriented rather than systematically pursued, with rare action taken against individual users of offshore gambling sites. That posture is set to change materially if the draft law revising Decree-Law No. 74-20 is enacted: the bill … Full analysis · 171 words Enforcement in Tunisia has historically been described as suppression-oriented rather than systematically pursued, with rare action taken against individual users of offshore gambling sites. That posture is set to change materially if the draft law revising Decree-Law No. 74-20 is enacted: the bill proposes prison sentences of one to five years for the use and promotion of unlicensed digital gambling platforms, a substantial escalation from the status quo. This is, at present, a Probable-confidence, pre-enactment proposal; the interpreter assigns it a fragile durability tag appropriate to draft legislation rather than an enacted statute, and no primary Journal Officiel or Assembly-record text was located this cycle to independently corroborate the bill's precise wording, leaving corroboration resting on secondary press and commentary. Read against the civil-law pattern in which unlicensed operation is typically an offence under the gambling statute itself rather than a secondary licence-breach theory, the proposed penalty would bring Tunisia's enforcement architecture into closer alignment with that regional model, converting what is currently an enforcement gap into an explicit criminal exposure. Probable AI-generated 5 enforcement events [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/enforcement/) 11 · What is coming? ### Outlook Unfavourable The reform trajectory is tightening, not liberalising. A January 2026 draft (23 MPs) and a parallel Ministry of Youth & Sports revision (December 2025) both aim to suppress offshore online gambling and align with AML/integrity standards rather than open a licensing regime. No politically viable path… Full analysis · 60 words The reform trajectory is tightening, not liberalising. A January 2026 draft (23 MPs) and a parallel Ministry of Youth & Sports revision (December 2025) both aim to suppress offshore online gambling and align with AML/integrity standards rather than open a licensing regime. No politically viable path to private-operator liberalisation exists given Islamic social constraints; the only legislative motion is restrictive. Probable AI-generated [Read full analysis & tables →](/jurisdictions/tunisia/outlook/) Evidential record & source register 2 enforcement · 25 red flags · 12 sources · Expand full record ## Enforcement record What the regulator has actually done, newest first. 2 recorded events. - 19 Jan 202623 MPs / ARP · Unlicensed online gambling (proposed)ConfirmedSource 2 · T3 - 11 Dec 2025Ministry of Youth and Sports · Sports-betting sector (reform)ConfirmedSource 4 · T3 ## What gets operators fined 25 red flags (10 high, 9 medium, 3 low) and 0 controls that address them. - highNo B2B supplier authorisation pathwaySuppliers cannot serve the market except via the Promosport contract holderSource 3 · T3 - highGambling blacklisted merchant categoryPSP onboarding routinely rejected; payment flows fragileSource 5 · T3 - highStrict BCT FX controlsCross-border settlement of gambling flows constrainedSource 5 · T3 - high2018 BCT crypto criminalisationCrypto cannot be used as a compliant funding railSource 10 · T3 - highAll private gambling marketing bannedNo legal acquisition channel for residentsSource 3 · T3 - highAffiliate liability proposed under 2026 billAffiliates exposed to criminal facilitationSource 2 · T3 - highReform direction is tighteningNo liberalisation prospect; suppression risk risingSource 4 · T3 - highProposed mandatory ISP blockingOffshore access would be degraded if enactedSource 2 · T3 - highProposed mandatory PSP transaction blockingPayment channels would be cut for offshore operatorsUnregistered source - highNo retrievable Tier-1 primary statute textMaterial legal-certainty gap; advice must be locally verifiedSource 11 · T4 - mediumCasino access barred to nationalsLand-based addressable base limited to touristsSource 8 · T3 - mediumPoker prohibited (no carve-out)No legal poker route online or land-basedSource 11 · T4 - medium~2% moral-acceptability of gamblingDeep social/political resistance to liberalisationSource 7 · T3 - mediumApp stores restrict gambling apps for TNNo compliant mobile distributionSource 6 · T3 - medium25% winnings withholding + 15% margin taxHeavy fiscal load even within the monopolySource 12 · T4 - mediumPromosport civil litigation against offshore operatorsActive private-enforcement risk in addition to state actionSource 1 · T3 - mediumCrypto-gambling prohibitedNo crypto wagering routeSource 10 · T3 - mediumCasino authorisations rarely issuedEven the one legal land-based route is practically closedSource 7 · T3 - mediumForeign-group dependency for Promosport tech (Sisal/Flutter)Single-supplier concentration; entry only via that contractSource 7 · T3 - lowBingo not addressed in statuteTreated as illegal by defaultSource 11 · T4 - lowCross-border data transfer authorisation (Law 2004-63)Adds compliance overhead for any data processingSource 1 · T3 - lowFantasy/esports betting prohibited by defaultEmerging verticals foreclosedSource 11 · T4 - criticalNo private online licensing route existsNo compliant market entry for B2C operatorsSource 7 · T3 - critical2026 bill proposes 1–5 yr prison + 500,000 TND finesCriminal exposure for operators, advertisers and facilitators if enactedSource 6 · T3 - criticalPromosport exclusivity in betting & lotteryNo competitive entry in betting/lotterySource 3 · T3 ## Worked scenarios 5 entry scenarios, each with the move we would make. #### EU-licensed sportsbook wishes to acquire Tunisian residents online. No private online licence exists; activity is prohibited and slated for criminalisation under the 2026 bill, with payment de-risking already in effect. Do this: Do not target Tunisian residents; geofence the market. Source 7 · T3 Source 2 · T3 #### Game studio wishes to supply RGS content B2B into Tunisia. No B2B authorisation class exists; supply is only feasible via the Promosport operating-contract holder (Sisal/Flutter). Do this: Approach only through the Promosport contract holder; no standalone B2B route. Source 3 · T3 #### Affiliate runs Arabic-language tipster pages promoting offshore books. Marketing of private gambling to residents is banned; the 2026 bill extends penalties to advertisers/facilitators. Do this: Cease Tunisia-targeted promotion; criminal exposure rising. Source 2 · T3 #### PSP asked to onboard a gambling merchant for Tunisian flows. Gambling is a blacklisted merchant category; onboarding is routinely rejected and BCT FX controls bind. Do this: Decline onboarding; high facilitation and de-risking exposure. Source 5 · T3 #### Investor evaluates acquiring a tourist casino licence. Authorisation under Loi 74-21 is by rare joint ministerial order; nationals barred; foreign-currency play only. Do this: Feasible only with existing authorisation; greenfield licence practically unavailable. Source 8 · T3 ## What we looked for and could not find Confirmed absence is a finding of its own. These are the questions we searched and could not answer from a citable source, with the searches we ran. Never behind the paywall. Market opportunity. no credible published GGR or market-size figure for Tunisian gambling located; ggr_estimate set null. - searched: Tunisia gambling market size GGR - searched: Promosport revenue Tunisia annual - searched: Tunisia betting market value 2025 - checked: focusgn.com Competitive landscape. no published licensed-operator count or unlicensed market-share percentage; monopoly structure noted but figures absent. - searched: Tunisia licensed gambling operators count - searched: Tunisia offshore gambling market share - searched: Promosport market share Tunisia - checked: lcb.org Aml cft regime. no MONEYVAL/FATF MER citation, statutory article references or reporting threshold for gambling retrievable; T1 primary text unavailable. - searched: Tunisia FATF MENAFATF MER gambling - searched: Tunisia AML law CTAF gambling reporting threshold - searched: Tunisia AML primary legislation article - checked: payatlas.com No Tier-1 primary source (official statute text or regulator portal) retrievable; Tunisia lacks a consolidated public legislative database. Confidence ceilings capped at Probable. - searched: Décret-loi 74-20 texte officiel JORT - searched: Promosport official site statute - searched: Tunisia Ministry of Finance gambling regulation portal - checked: scribd.com ## Source register Every source on a four-step tier scale. A claim is never shown at a stronger tier than the source it cites. 12 sources · 10 tier 3 · 2 tier 4 No. Source Tier Verification 1 TN-LOI-74-21-1974 T3 of 4 Source 1 · Open in drawer → 2 TN-DRAFTBILL-2026-01 T3 of 4 Source 2 · Open in drawer → 3 TN-PROMOSPORT-MONOPOLY T3 of 4 Source 3 · Open in drawer → 4 TN-DRAFTBILL-2025-12 T3 of 4 Source 4 · Open in drawer → 5 TN-PAYMENTS-BCT T3 of 4 Source 5 · Open in drawer → 6 TN-ENFORCEMENT-PROPOSED T3 of 4 Source 6 · Open in drawer → 7 TN-MARKET-OVERVIEW T3 of 4 Source 7 · Open in drawer → 8 TN-CASINOS-TOURIST T3 of 4 Source 8 · Open in drawer → 9 TN-ENFORCEMENT-PASSIVE T3 of 4 Source 9 · Open in drawer → 10 TN-CRYPTO-BCT T3 of 4 Source 10 · Open in drawer → 11 TN-DECRETLOI-74-20-1974 T4 of 4 Source 11 · Open in drawer → 12 TN-TAX-BETTING T4 of 4 Source 12 · Open in drawer →