Israel: Parliamentary Finance Committee approves 2025 budget
Israel's Parliamentary Finance Committee approved the 2025 state budget on 23 March 2025. The bill proposes that the net state budget for 2025 will stand at about NIS 755.9 billion – the total budget for calculation of the expenditure limit
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Israel seeks input on local R&D centres and IP valuations
Israel’s tax authority (ITA) released a draft Tax Circular on 27 February 2025 for public comment. The circular outlines criteria and requirements for local R&D centres and post-acquisition IP sales, offering potential certainty from the
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Israel proposes withholding tax on digital asset transactions
Israel’s government proposed draft regulations on 21 November 2024 to impose withholding tax on digital asset transactions, including cryptocurrencies, tokens, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A recent ministerial memorandum clarified that
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Israel clarifies CbC reporting rules for MNEs
The Israel Tax Authority (ITA) issued Income Tax Circular No. 1/2025 on 11 February 2025, which clarifies amendments to the Income Tax Ordinance. The amendments pertain to transfer pricing and country-by-country (CbC) reporting requirements. The
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Israel: Knesset passes trapped profits law
Israel’s Knesset has passed the Trapped Profits Law (tax on excess undistributed profits) on 29 December 2024. The law imposes a 2% tax on excess undistributed profits of closely held holding companies (entities with five or fewer
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Israel issues guidance on increased VAT rate
Israel’s Tax Authority has issued guidance on the increase in the standard VAT rate from 17% to 18%, effective 1 January 2025. The guidance provides an explanation of how to apply the correct VAT rate to transactions such as goods, services,
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Israel announces 2025 state budget, increases VAT rate
Israel’s government passed the budget for 2025 on 1 November 2024. The 2025 budget includes various tax hikes, such as an increase in the standard VAT rate from 17% to 18% and spending cuts on most ministries. The Israeli Cabinet cited that tax
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Ghana negotiates tax treaties with Hungary, Israel, UAE, Korea, Egypt
Ghana announced that it is negotiating to establish income tax treaties with Hungary, Israel, UAE, Korea, and Egypt. Daniel Nuer, Head of the Tax Policy Unit at Ghana's Ministry of Finance, revealed that the Ministry plans to implement
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Israel: Central Bank won’t cut interest rates again in 2024
Andrew Abir, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel, said that the central bank will not reduce short-term interest rates in its final two policy meetings in 2024 on Wednesday, 28 August. The Governor said that this decision was taken due to
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Israel to implement Pillar Two QDMTT in 2026
Israel's Ministry of Finance announced its initial plan to implement the qualified domestic minimum top-up tax (QDMTT) in 2026, as part of the OECD Pillar Two international tax reform. The enforcement of QDMTT will eliminate the need for Israeli
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Israel: Finance committee approves additional tax on financial institutions
On 4 March 2024, the Finance Committee of Israel’s parliament (Knesset) passed a measure to impose a 6% tax on financial institutions holding assets equivalent to at least 5% of the total assets held by Israeli banks. This additional tax will be
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Israel to raise bank taxes to 26% in 2024 and 2025
On 15 January 2024, Israel's Ministry of Finance proposed to increase the tax rate on bank profits from 17% to 26% in both 2024 and 2025. At present, banks and other financial institutions pay a 17% VAT-equivalent tax on their total payroll and
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Israel releases Guidance on MAP and APA procedures
On 17 August 2023, the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) released Tax Circular No. 1/2023, which provides guidance for mutual agreement procedure (MAP), and bilateral advance pricing agreement (APA) requests. The new circular replaces the guidance of
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Israel publishes a new CbC Notification form
The Israeli Tax Authority (ITA) has recently released a new Notification Form 1585 for the disclosure of information related to Country-by-country reporting (CbCR). This includes providing details on group revenues, identifying the Ultimate Parent
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Israel publishes guidance on CbC reporting
The Israel Tax Authority (ITA) has released guidelines and Technical instructions for the filing of Country-by-Country (CbC) reports. Multi-National Enterprise (MNE) groups with a combined revenue of ILS 3.4 billion and above, starting from the 2022
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Israel: Peer Review on Transparency and Exchange of Information
The second stage, phase one peer review report on Israel’s implementation of standards on the exchange of information on request was published by the OECD on 9 November 2022. The first review noted that although a regulatory framework was in
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Israel gazettes amendments to transfer pricing regulations
On 22 September 2022, the Israeli Official Gazette published the Income Tax Regulations 2022, amending the Income Tax Ordinance, which adopted on 30 June 2022 for the introduction of the three-tiered transfer pricing documentation requirements of
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Israel introduces three-tiered TP documentation requirements
On 30 June 2022, the Israeli Parliament passed legislation to amend Section 85A of the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) and its regulations, by introducing three-tiered transfer pricing documentation requirements of BEPS Action 13. The legislation
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