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The PLF 2026 focuses on purchasing power and economic recovery
A budget focused on stability and social well-being
The draft finance law (PLF) for the year 2026, presented Tuesday by the Minister of Finance, Abdelkrim Bouzerd, before the Finance and Budget Committee of the National People’s Assembly, is part of a logic of economic and social continuity. This text, which outlines the country’s main budgetary guidelines for the coming year, places emphasis on supporting purchasing power, price stability and improving the living environment of citizens, while ensuring the consolidation of the foundations of the national economy.
The PLF 2026 therefore proposes a series of concrete measures to guarantee the supply of the market with widely consumed products and limit price fluctuations.
Among the main provisions is the extension until December 31, 2026 of tax and customs exemptions on several basic products, including crude soybean oil, coffee, pulses as well as white and red meat.
These measures, already in force, will be maintained in order to protect consumers from inflationary pressures and to preserve the stability of the internal market. The text also provides for the extension of the reduced rate of 5% of customs duties applied to the importation of live cattle and sheep intended for slaughter, as well as to fresh meat refrigerated under vacuum. Sales of locally produced pulses, imported rice, fresh fruits and vegetables, table eggs, broiler chicken and turkey will continue to benefit from tax exemptions. Crude soybean oil remains exempt from customs duties and VAT, but importers will gradually have to source from the national market or produce locally before the end of 2026.
Coffee imports will also be exempt from VAT and the internal consumption tax, and will benefit from a reduced rate of customs duties of 5% until the end of 2026. A specific measure is planned for live sheep heads imported on the occasion of Eid El Adha, which will be completely exempt from duties and taxes from April 15, 2025 to June 30, 2026. On a social level, the bill grants a important place for housing, a strategic axis of public policy. The Treasury will cover the interest and interest rate subsidies on loans granted by public banks as part of the rental-purchase housing program, for a volume of 300,000 units planned for 2026.
This measure is part of the public authorities’ ambition to build two million homes over the period 2025-2030. Furthermore, the deadlines for the acquisition of public rental (social) housing are extended until December 31, 2026, allowing occupants to regularize their situation and become owners. In the same spirit, the government intends to improve the mobility conditions of citizens.
The text proposes total exemption from duties and taxes on the importation of 10,000 transport vehicles for ten or more people, whether assembled or not, including the provisional additional safeguard tax, the solidarity contribution and the withholding tax.
This measure also extends to spare parts imported separately for local assembly. It reflects the authorities’ desire to modernize the national public transport fleet, in accordance with the decisions taken by the Council of Ministers on September 3.
Finally, the PLF 2026 integrates an environmental dimension, by encouraging the use of renewable energies. Customs duties on domestic solar water heaters will be reduced from 30% to 15%, in order to encourage households to adopt more ecological and economical solutions.
Through this set of measures, the 2026 finance bill aims to ensure a balance between social protection, food security and productive recovery.
It reflects the government’s desire to combine budgetary prudence and social commitment, in an international situation marked by economic uncertainties and the need to strengthen national resilience.
Djamila Sai