Taxes

Your Taxes: The 2026 aliyah tax opportunity is closing - here's what you need to know

Israel's new 2026 aliyah tax rules offer temporary income tax breaks for new immigrants and returning residents, while requiring greater disclosure of foreign assets despite existing exemptions.

 Illustrative image of doing taxes.
Gali Baharav-Miara.

Treasury to allocate NIS 40 million to institutions affected by war via two tracks

“For many diaspora Jews, an apartment in Israel has become both an investment and a source of security and belonging.”

Your Taxes: Technological versus marketing income

A worker fills benzene, at a gas station in Jerusalem before petrol prices rise at midnight on 31 January 2011.

Finance Ministry aims to cut record high gas prices by 50 agorot, needs attorney-general's approval


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.

Aliyah from France, which was saw 1,500 to 2,000 people moving to Israel every year, increased in 2025 to 3,300.

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No AI agent knows the unpublished positions of Israeli tax officials – accountants find these out on the job or in tax audit meetings.

A conceptual illustration of global data networks, proxy servers and artificial intelligence technologies powering modern web data collection.

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.

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of an upwards-trending graph (illustration)

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.

Digital Payment.

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

A photo shows a view of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) headquarters in Paris on September 22, 2025

VAT on reinsurance transactions and overseas loans

In a panel led by Gal Greenberg of KPMG Israel, VAT Director David Shilon revealed that the Tax Authority considered expanding VAT rules under a legislative amendment to cover additional sectors.

Chen Schreiber.

Ability Industries, two officials indicted in NIS 35m. defense-export case

Prosecutors charged the company and two officials with aggravated smuggling offenses and unlicensed defense marketing.

A general view of the the Magistrate's Court in Rishon LeZion on October 28, 2020.

Lawyer claimed disability residency status to save NIS 450,000 on property taxes

Rafael Yitzhak was released under restrictive conditions while authorities investigate suspected property tax fraud worth NIS 450,000.

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The Association for Civil Rights petitions against the tax benefits law for settlements

The petitioners claim that the criteria were artificially tailored while silencing the positions of the Tax Authority and the Budget Department, which opposed the move.

Bezalel Smotrich

Your Taxes: Look before you leap out of Israeli fiscal residency

Below, we discuss tax aspects for people leaving Israel. In a subsequent article, we will discuss returning to Israel.

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of an upwards-trending graph (illustration)