I have been admitted to the Israel Bar since 2011, and I practise Israeli tax law with a background in accounting. Most of my work is international: clients who are arriving in Israel, leaving it, or living somewhere else entirely while Israel still has a claim on part of their income.
I represent clients before the Israel Tax Authority and in disputes across income tax, real-estate taxation, VAT and customs. As a registered representative I can act directly with the Tax Authority on a client's behalf - open a file, submit returns, file objections and appeals, handle refund claims, and run residency-severance and voluntary-disclosure proceedings - dealing directly with the assessing office where the file sits.
A large part of my practice is conducted alongside lawyers and accountants abroad. Israeli tax rarely arrives on its own: it comes attached to a US return, a UK domicile question, a trust in one jurisdiction and a company in another. I am used to being the Israeli half of that conversation.
Before establishing the firm I practised at Goldfarb Seligman & Co., Lipa Meir & Co., and Yossi Elisha Kalderon.
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Communications between a lawyer and client that relate to the professional service are privileged, and the lawyer cannot be compelled to produce them - a protection Israeli law does not extend to accountants or tax advisors.
Attorney-client privilege, s.48 of the Israeli Evidence Ordinance
Core practice
International taxation and treaty work
Timing the severance of Israeli tax residency to reduce exposure, secure available reliefs and avoid double taxation.
Timing the sale of investments, assets and real estate before or after a move to limit the Israeli tax charge.
Structuring the transfer of funds and assets between jurisdictions with minimum tax leakage.
Analysing double tax treaties and applying them to foreign-source income.
Advising on the choice of destination jurisdiction for relocation or digital nomadism, and the reliefs available there.
Planning and reporting income from assets and investments across multiple jurisdictions.
Obtaining Israeli withholding tax exemptions on payments abroad.
Complex refund claims - including cross-border taxation of employee options and RSUs, and betterment and purchase tax refunds for foreign residents.
