Israel tax authority

Your Taxes: An agreement is an agreement

In Weiss vs Large Enterprises Assessing Officer, the court said the ITA also cannot back out of an agreement with a taxpayer. (The ITA sometimes needs to remember that.)

 Illustrative image of doing taxes.
Bedouin women sit outside their demolished homes in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, in the in the Southern Israel, January 18, 2017.

Negev governance crisis: Polygamy running rampant, contractors exposed to extortion

 Illustration of  Israeli shekels, September 24, 2023

Your Taxes: So you want to acquire an Israeli company?

Destroyed building in central Israel following Iranian missile strikes on February 28, 2026.

Nearly 30,000 property damage claims filed since start of Operation Roaring Lion


Your Taxes: Israel Tax Authority’s view on debt versus equity

The Israel Tax Authority's circular on founders’ shares is important for multinational corporations with Israeli subsidiaries, among others.

Stacks of Israeli shekel notes [Illustrative]

Keep out of the Tax Authority’s bad books

If you are part of a multinational group that wants to use a bona fide international accounting system, you must apply to the ITA for a special dispensation.

Shekel money bills

Tax chief: Israel has become world's laxest tax haven

"We have yet to find a single country in the world with a similar law."

Calculating taxes

Knesset panel advances revolutionary bankruptcy legislation

Bill emphasizes overall economic gains over liquidation and punishing debtors.

The Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approves a bill.

Your taxes: The new tax year

If your tax planning is at odds with an Israel Tax Authority position, you must tell them so they know where to start a tax audit.

le bitcoin, une nouvelle monnaie virtuelle

Your taxes: ITA lifts veil on personal-service companies

These are complex rules that will affect the Israeli SME sector, and they appear to differ from some of the tax-reform measures just enacted in the United States.

US tax form (illustrative)

Air pollution, defective construction and corruption plague the state

Israel's comptroller reported on the faulty infrastructure creating a threat through out the state.

Israel's high-speed trains will race 100 mph along a network of eight bridges and six tunnels that constitute one of the largest infrastructure projects in Israel’s history

Coca-Cola owes Israeli Tax Authority huge sums of money

Coca-Cola failed to convince the Israeli Tax Authority that payments to the Irish company should not be taxed as "royalties."

A logo is seen on a Coca-Cola bottle

Three El Al employees arrested for fraud, money laundering

The suspects are based in Romania and Poland.

An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner; illustrative.

Drip irrigation, jewel of Israeli tech, sells for $1.5b

As part of the deal, the parties said they have agreed to maintain Netafim's core activity in Israel, including continued production and R&D activity, for at least the next 20 years.

Netafim