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Law Firms - Taxation Law
Meir Mizrahi & Co.
Meir Mizrahi & Co. is one of Israel’s lead-
ing taxation law firms, and is known as
one of the best and most successful
boutique law firms in real estate taxation and
VAT. The firm specializes in consultancy on all
tax aspects of the transaction.
The firm offers clients full tax support, from
the transaction planning stage (consult on
outlining the structure, support in formulating
agreements, implementing tax estimates and
calculations, handling receipt of approvals
and writing reviews), reporting the transaction
(obtaining tax reports and calculations as part
of independent assessments) to Tax Author-
ity discussions (assessment, objections, and
conducting legal proceedings).
Clients include Israel’s largest companies,
businesses, real estate developers as well as
private individuals.
Service and Professionalism
Meir Mizrahi & Co. stresses its professional
talents and abilities in the various taxations,
along with the highest levels of service. The
firm successfully combines a deep business
understanding with expertise and profession-
alism in the taxation field.
The firm’s extensive knowledge and experi-
ence in taxation provides clients with an ad-
vantage, because transactions are undertaken
from an overall and profound perspective.
Meir Mizrahi was chosen by “The Marker”
and “Globes” as one of the most influential
figures in the Israeli real estate market. The
firm earned its reputation for reliability and
professionalism in the business community,
and serves as the professional go-to firm for
various law firms, accountants, real estate ap-
praisers and tax consultants, requiring assis-
tance in planning tax diluting deal structures
and discussions with the tax authorities. The
firm regularly appears in the directories rank-
ing leading international law firms in taxation.
Top guide Chambers & Partners praises the
firm as “an extremely successful real estate
tax boutique”, while Legal 500 writes, “rec-
ommended for VAT, real estate and land
taxation”.
Real Estate Taxation
The firm supports the tax aspects of Israel’s real
estate market in a wide range of contracts, such
as combination deals, exchange transactions,
TAMA 38 earthquake retrofit rights deals, pur-
chasing group sale deals, rights sale transactions
for building and shifting building rights (the firm
is a tax consultant for Tel Aviv Municipality on
preservation plans), call option and put option
deals for real estate rights, urban renewal deals,
trusts, sale of apartments with building rights
deals, tax in amalgamating land, and supporting
projects for companies holding real estate.
VAT
The firm’s VAT department is headed by Shai
Berger (formerly head of the professional depart-
ment in VAT) and Shlomi Vaknin, CPA (formerly
deputy head of the VAT professional department).
The firm provides consultancy, preparing and
planning tax in deals and ventures and represen-
tation in criminal and civil proceedings in court.
The VAT department specializes in representing
clients before the tax authorities and VAT man-
agement firms in all assessment proceedings in-
cluding pre-rulings for deals. The firm draws up
reviews on topics related to VAT liability.
Income Tax
The firm advises on selected income tax mat-
ters stressing the interface between income tax
instructions and the Real Estate Taxation Law:
offsetting losses, spreading payments, changing
structures in real estate holdings, including liq-
uidating companies, and transferring real estate
to individuals, and vice versa – transferring real
estate from individuals to companies, mergers
and splits, contractors tax, real estate financing
agreements and real estate asset depreciation.
The department is headed by Dorit Binyamini
CPA and Lior Ratzon CPA, both former Tax Au-
thority emnployees.
Tax Litigation
The firm operates a highly professional and
skilled litigation department providing profes-
sional support to clients in all stages of legal
proceedings with appeals committees, district
courts and the Supreme Court on betterment tax,
betterment levies, VAT and income tax.
Voluntary Disclosure
Our firm handles Voluntary Disclosure proce-
dures with the Tax Authorities, and even ap-
pears on a list of experts recommended by UBS
Bank.
The Firm’s Clients
The firm’s clients include Israel’s largest and
most prestigious organizations and compa-
nies such as; Shikun U’Binui, Azorim, Migdal
insurance, Tel Aviv Municipality, Europe-Israel,
Bezeq, Cross-Israel Highway, Mizrahi Tefahot
Bank and more. The firm serves as a tax consul-
tant to the Tel Aviv Contractors Association, and
the Real Estate Appraisers Association.
Pro Bono
Meir Mizrahi & Co. is one of Israel’s leading
firms in pro bono activities, and donates its
professional experience in taxation to chari-
ties. The firm understands the great importance
of philanthropy as well as the contribution to
the community. The firm assists in taxation for
the needy and among other things established
S.M.L. Association for Tax Advice to provide tax
consultancy to those who cannot afford it. The
firm was chosen by the Israel Bar Association
as a leader in pro-bono.
Associates
Ronit Barzily, Adv.; Lior Ratzon, Adv. and CPA.;
Maya Carmi, Adv.; Miri Tennenbaum, Adv.; Yifat
Aloni Adv.; Karin Shalev-Avraham Adv.; Saleh
Abu Elassal, Adv. and CPA; Liat Shages Adv.;
Roy Ezra Adv; and Aviv Abucassis-Cohen Adv.
Beit Oz, 16th Floor, 14 Abba Hillel St.,
Ramat Gan 5250607
Tel: 972-3-6129797
Fax: 972-3-6129796
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Meir Mizrahi Adv. *
Dorit Binyamini Adv. and CPA.
Shay Berger Adv.
Yoni Cohen Adv.
Efrat Rossiansky Adv.
Ofir Saadon Adv.
Shlomi Vaknin Adv. and CPA.
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582