Israel tax authority

Knesset advances bill granting five-year tax exemption to olim, returning residents

Olim, along with returning residents who have lived abroad for at least ten years, will be eligible for the tax exemption.

Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, February 23, 2026.
Aftermath of an Iranian ballistic missile attack following impact of missile fragments in central Israel, March 8, 2026

Your Taxes: How Israelis can claim fast-track missile damage compensation

A charity donation box is seen in this illustrative photo taken March 22, 2023

Your Taxes: Israel moves charities online for tax breaks

 New Israeli Shekel banknotes are seen in this picture illustration taken November 9, 2021

Ashdod shop owner suspected of laundering money using ATM


Tax Authority working to help Holocaust survivors exercise tax benefits

Some 70% of the affected survivors had not filed any reports or requests for tax returns.

Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem June 15, 2009.

Can the Tax Authority force accountants to hand over information?

Lawyers have legal privilege, accountants don’t

Calculating taxes

Tax breaks for service platforms in Israel

US tax form (illustrative)

Gov't allows IDF Intelligence to receive information on civilians – report

The approval, a "general permit for information disclosure," will allow the IDF Intelligence Directorate to receive any information that the Tax Authority may have, on every single citizen.

IDF recruits at the Military Intelligence language school

Will the Israel Tax Authority push for the Italian model of tax disputes?

The ITA raised the possibility of best-judgment assessments in transfer-pricing cases, among others, in a recent tax circular.

Calculating taxes

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.

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