How to Apply:

1. You should visit the Direction Générale des Transports Terrestres (DGTT) department of transport title office near you with all the supporting documents (listed below).
2. Express your interest at the service desk and then Submit the required documents to the authorized official for verification and processing.
3. If all the documents are in order, you will then be required to go and pay the require fees at Finance Department at the DGTT, upon which you will be issued with a receipt.
4. Return to the department of transport title office and submit the payment receipt
5. You will then be registered as a cab driver and you will be issued with a Tax Law card.

• Driving license dating back at least one year;
• Tax stamp of 1,000 FCFA
• 2,500 FCFA DGTT receipt
• Two Identity Photos;
• Medical certificate dating from less than three (03) months.
• Identification card.

Direction Générale des Transports Terrestres (DGTT):
Ministry of Transport and Public Works
Telephone: (+229) 21 31 91 01 / (+229) 21 31 39 98
Fax: 21 31 01 33
Address: 01 BP 1230
E-mail: dgtt_benin@yahoo.fr
Website: Link

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• Tax stamp of 1,000 FCFA
• Service fee of 2,500 FCFA

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All person who wish to operate a transit vehicle as a cab/taxi driver is required to register and seek approval from the Direction Générale des Transports Terrestres (DGTT) to do so.

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