Taxes
Your Taxes: Israeli property flip ends with a costly VAT lesson
A recent Israeli court ruling offers a costly lesson for property investors: recovering VAT when buying a property can create a much larger VAT bill when plans change.
Your Taxes: Mulling a return to Israel? Here's what you need to know
'Taxes will need to be raised': Bank of Israel Governor's bad news following rate cut
Your Taxes: Does Israel need to tax billionaires?
Your Taxes: Don’t mix up the red and green channels at Ben-Gurion Airport
Two smugglers who smuggled goods through Ben-Gurion Airport received heavy fines, a suspended sentence, and a criminal record after they appealed an administrative fine.
‘My form of Zionism’: Jerusalem nonprofit helps new olim build businesses in Israel
MATI Jerusalem gives new immigrants the guidance, tools, and confidence they need to launch successful businesses and keep them growing.
Your Taxes: Is a hotel a real estate play in Israel?
Israeli real estate purchases can face up to 10% purchase tax, with anti-avoidance rules also taxing shares in entities whose assets are primarily Israeli property.
High-tech workers, doctors leaving: Emigration wave hits Israel’s top income decile
Emigration rate among wealthy population nearly doubled compared to previous years, Tax Authority estimates potential tax loss at roughly NIS 700M.
Your Taxes: How Israel taxes SAFE investments in hi-tech startups
Israel’s tax rules can keep SAFE investment discounts untaxed, but startups and investors must meet strict conditions on equity, discounts, transfers and share sales.
Your Taxes: What new olim need to know about Israel's tax exemption
This article discusses what the Knesset enacted, what the Israeli Tax Authority is now saying, and what you can do about it.
Your Taxes: Can AI tax agents replace human experience in the tax field?
No AI agent knows the unpublished positions of Israeli tax officials – accountants find these out on the job or in tax audit meetings.
Your Taxes: Could taxes unlock Israel's constitutional future?
If President Herzog refrained from signing new tax and spending legislation until constitutional progress occurs, maybe this would encourage all concerned to sign up to a constitution.
Israel, Paybox launch Jerusalem's first municipal wallet in push to digitalize taxes, payments
The system, known as MuniBox, will allow residents of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Jerusalem to pay for most municipal services and taxes via a mobile app.
Your Taxes: How to live longer according to the OECD
By 2060, one out of three people in OECD countries will be at least 65 years old, up from one out of five today, according to the OECD, with careers now spanning decades, up to five generations