Registering as an employer with CNAS: your activity and your staff

There are two parts. The activity declaration registers your business as an employer with CNAS. The registration request then enrols each employee, so that they are covered and the contributions paid are credited to them.

You must declare every person you pay, whatever the amount and form of their pay. Once registered, you declare and pay contributions every month or every quarter, and each year you send the annual declaration of salaries and employees (DAS).

for the activity declaration after the first hire

10 days

to register each new employee

10 days

standard overall contribution rate

34.5%

to declare and pay after each month or quarter

30 days

Every employer, from the first employee:

• a company (SARL, EURL, SPA, SNC...) that hires, including to pay a salaried manager;
• a trader, craftsperson or liberal professional working as an individual who takes on staff;
• any other organisation that pays staff.

As long as you work alone, with no employee, there is no activity declaration to make to CNAS: only CASNOS concerns you.

1. 1

   Prepare the company identifiers

   Trade register extract, NIF, NIS, articles of association, declaration of existence and bank details. Without the NIF and NIS, the file is incomplete.

2. 2

   Fill in the IM-03 in 2 copies

   Download the form from the CNAS website. Enter the company's identity, activity, start date and the date of the first hire.

3. 3

   Draw up the list of employees

   One line per employee, with their registration request and documents: birth certificate n° 12 or S12 if not registered, family record if married.

4. 4

   File within 10 days

   At the CNAS office of the company's wilaya, or start with employer registration on the e-declaration portal.

5. 5

   Activate your online account

   With your employer number, open your e-declaration account: you will use it for every later return.

6. 6

   Register each new hire

   For every hire, a registration request within 10 days, even during the probation period.

7. 7

   Declare and pay contributions

   Within 30 days after each quarter if you have fewer than 10 employees, after each month above 10.

8. 8

   Send the DAS every year

   The annual declaration of salaries and employees goes out within 30 days after the end of the year.

At the office

The activity declaration file is filed at the CNAS office of the wilaya where your business is located. Ask for one copy of the form to be returned to you with the receipt stamp.

Online, on the e-declaration portal

The CNAS e-declaration portal offers online employer registration. Once registered, you use it to declare contributions, staff movements (arrivals and departures) and the DAS.

What Neuron does

Neuron only fills in business setup forms and does not do bookkeeping or routine returns: this guide is free and all you need to do it yourself. 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).

Before taking action over unpaid contributions, the fund sends a formal notice giving 30 days to put things right. After that, it can start enforced recovery.

• Waiting for the end of the probation period to declare an employee: the 10-day period starts from the hire.
• Not declaring a part-time or low-paid employee: every paid person must be declared.
• Choosing the wrong fund for the manager: majority manager with CASNOS, paid minority or non-partner manager with CNAS.
• Using the wrong frequency: quarterly below 10 employees, monthly above.
• Forgetting the DAS, due within 30 days after the end of the year.
• Not declaring departures and other staff movements.
• Filing an incomplete file, without the NIS or tax card: it may be turned away at the desk.