What is the purpose of the citizen’s unique identifier ?

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What is the purpose of the citizen’s unique identifier ?

Many people ask the question: What is the purpose of the new unique citizen identifier ? Is it a new Tunisian national ID card ? What are its advantages for citizens ?

In fact, this new digital identifier for Tunisian citizens offers the following benefits b:

- It will be assigned to every tunisian citizen from birth (even tunisians under 18 without a national ID card will be recognized through this identifier)

- It will serve as a digital link between various public administrations (they will no longer ask citizens to provide documents already available at another public entity)

- It will help better identify individuals in need of social assistance

- It will help detect smugglers or individuals with unreported income who are not recognized by the Tunisian tax and social administration (helping to reduce tax fraud) ...