Real Estate / Real Estate Taxation
Barnea Jaffa Lande provides comprehensive legal guidance on tax planning and the broad range of tax issues that arise in connection with real estate transactions.
Real estate transactions often carry significant tax implications. In some cases, even transactions that are not intuitively viewed as a taxable may be treated as such by the tax authorities under certain circumstances. Examples include transfers without consideration between relatives, estate distribution agreements among heirs, transfers of rights from trustees to beneficiaries, and similar arrangements.
It is therefore essential to identify the tax implications of each transaction and obtain professional legal advice in order to ensure proper structuring and achieve the most efficient tax outcome.
Barnea Jaffa Lande’s Tax Department
Our Tax Department provides legal services across all aspects of real estate taxation, including transactions involving complex tax issues such as urban renewal projects, combination transactions, sales of residential apartments with building rights, purchasing group transactions, transactions involving local authorities, expropriations, lease agreements, dissolutions of real estate associations, and more.
Our legal services in the field of real estate taxation include:
- Analyzing exposure to capital gains tax and purchase tax
- Filing reports on real estate transactions with the tax authorities and providing ongoing representation until tax assessments are issued
- Filing objections to tax assessments and pursuing court appeals against rulings on such objections
- Handling the settlement of outstanding purchase tax liabilities
- Structuringoptimal tax planning
- Preparing and submitting applications for tax pre-rulings
- Drafting legal opinions and memoranda
Real Estate Taxation – Corporations
Our Tax Department advises various types of corporations on a wide range of transactions, including representation in real estate transactions both at the stage of structuring the optimal tax framework and at the contractual stage, as well as in dealing with the tax authorities.
The department also advises on transactions and operations involving real estate associations, analyzes tax exposures, and represents corporations before the tax authorities and the courts.
Real Estate Taxation – Private Clients
We provide private clients with legal support on a broad range of real estate taxation matters, including tax advice relating to family property and optimal tax planning, such as prenuptial agreements and asset separation arrangements. We also advise on estates and inheritances, transfers of property resulting from divorce, consolidation and partition agreements, and the use of tax exemptions on the sale of residential apartments. In addition, we handle transactions involving rights holders in real estate associations, including the sale and purchase of shares and the transfer of rights to shareholders upon the dissolution of an association.
We also advise foreign clients on Israeli real estate taxation and analyze the tax implications of acquiring and investing in real estate in Israel. Our services include guidance on Israeli tax law, assessment of potential tax exposure and available opportunities, and practical regulatory advice aimed at helping clients maximize the return on their investments.
With more than 15 years of experience, Adv. Maya Carmi Lubartovski heads the firm’s real estate taxation practice.
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Real Estate / Real Estate Taxation
Barnea Jaffa Lande provides comprehensive legal guidance on tax planning and the broad range of tax issues that arise in connection with real estate transactions.
Real estate transactions often carry significant tax implications. In some cases, even transactions that are not intuitively viewed as a taxable may be treated as such by the tax authorities under certain circumstances. Examples include transfers without consideration between relatives, estate distribution agreements among heirs, transfers of rights from trustees to beneficiaries, and similar arrangements.
It is therefore essential to identify the tax implications of each transaction and obtain professional legal advice in order to ensure proper structuring and achieve the most efficient tax outcome.
Barnea Jaffa Lande’s Tax Department
Our Tax Department provides legal services across all aspects of real estate taxation, including transactions involving complex tax issues such as urban renewal projects, combination transactions, sales of residential apartments with building rights, purchasing group transactions, transactions involving local authorities, expropriations, lease agreements, dissolutions of real estate associations, and more.
Our legal services in the field of real estate taxation include:
- Analyzing exposure to capital gains tax and purchase tax
- Filing reports on real estate transactions with the tax authorities and providing ongoing representation until tax assessments are issued
- Filing objections to tax assessments and pursuing court appeals against rulings on such objections
- Handling the settlement of outstanding purchase tax liabilities
- Structuringoptimal tax planning
- Preparing and submitting applications for tax pre-rulings
- Drafting legal opinions and memoranda
Real Estate Taxation – Corporations
Our Tax Department advises various types of corporations on a wide range of transactions, including representation in real estate transactions both at the stage of structuring the optimal tax framework and at the contractual stage, as well as in dealing with the tax authorities.
The department also advises on transactions and operations involving real estate associations, analyzes tax exposures, and represents corporations before the tax authorities and the courts.
Real Estate Taxation – Private Clients
We provide private clients with legal support on a broad range of real estate taxation matters, including tax advice relating to family property and optimal tax planning, such as prenuptial agreements and asset separation arrangements. We also advise on estates and inheritances, transfers of property resulting from divorce, consolidation and partition agreements, and the use of tax exemptions on the sale of residential apartments. In addition, we handle transactions involving rights holders in real estate associations, including the sale and purchase of shares and the transfer of rights to shareholders upon the dissolution of an association.
We also advise foreign clients on Israeli real estate taxation and analyze the tax implications of acquiring and investing in real estate in Israel. Our services include guidance on Israeli tax law, assessment of potential tax exposure and available opportunities, and practical regulatory advice aimed at helping clients maximize the return on their investments.
With more than 15 years of experience, Adv. Maya Carmi Lubartovski heads the firm’s real estate taxation practice.