Real Estate / Real Estate Taxation
We provide comprehensive legal guidance in relation to tax planning and all of the diverse tax issues that arise in relation to real-estate transactions.
Our experienced team provides its expertise to clients regarding all types of municipal taxation, including building and development permits and betterment levies. Clients also refer to our firm for professional counseling in transactions relating to the various tax assessment proceedings, including the filing of objections and appeals.
Our firm furthermore provides advice in relation to various issues pertaining to betterment tax and purchase tax, exemptions and allowances applicable to these taxes, tax planning, as well as guidance in relation to tax issues that arise during complex transactions, such as combination transactions, real-estate purchasing consortiums, sales of privately owned land and agricultural lands.
Insights & News - Real Estate / Real Estate Taxation:
Podcast: Adv. Harel Perlmutter Talks Real Estate Taxation on "Kesef Bakir"
Taxation can make or break real estate deals. Harel Perlmutter, head of our firm's Tax Department, talks with Guy Lieberman about tax hitches and opportunities in an interview also published on Globes.
It Is Time to Come Back Home: Investors Can Now Enjoy a Reduced Purchase Tax
Israeli Minister of Finance Israel Katz’s plan to reduce purchase tax for investors has gone into effect. Until now, under plans advanced by the previous Minister of Finance, Moshe Kahlon, for lowering housing prices and pushing investors out of the real estate market, the purchase tax for investors went up from 5% to 8% for an apartment that was not the purchaser's sole apartment.
Dramatic Decision on the Taxation of Trusts in Israel
The Tel Aviv District Court handed down a decision a few days ago rejecting the Israel Tax Authority’s (ITA) position on the conveyance of real estate properties to trusts. This decision dramatically changes the taxation of trusts in Israel.
Real Estate / Real Estate Taxation
We provide comprehensive legal guidance in relation to tax planning and all of the diverse tax issues that arise in relation to real-estate transactions.
Our experienced team provides its expertise to clients regarding all types of municipal taxation, including building and development permits and betterment levies. Clients also refer to our firm for professional counseling in transactions relating to the various tax assessment proceedings, including the filing of objections and appeals.
Our firm furthermore provides advice in relation to various issues pertaining to betterment tax and purchase tax, exemptions and allowances applicable to these taxes, tax planning, as well as guidance in relation to tax issues that arise during complex transactions, such as combination transactions, real-estate purchasing consortiums, sales of privately owned land and agricultural lands.
Insights & News - Real Estate:
Podcast: Adv. Harel Perlmutter Talks Real Estate Taxation on "Kesef Bakir"
Taxation can make or break real estate deals. Harel Perlmutter, head of our firm's Tax Department, talks with Guy Lieberman about tax hitches and opportunities in an interview also published on Globes.
It Is Time to Come Back Home: Investors Can Now Enjoy a Reduced Purchase Tax
Israeli Minister of Finance Israel Katz’s plan to reduce purchase tax for investors has gone into effect. Until now, under plans advanced by the previous Minister of Finance, Moshe Kahlon, for lowering housing prices and pushing investors out of the real estate market, the purchase tax for investors went up from 5% to 8% for an apartment that was not the purchaser's sole apartment.
Dramatic Decision on the Taxation of Trusts in Israel
The Tel Aviv District Court handed down a decision a few days ago rejecting the Israel Tax Authority’s (ITA) position on the conveyance of real estate properties to trusts. This decision dramatically changes the taxation of trusts in Israel.