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Law Firms - Taxation Law
Joulus Gazit & Co.
J oulus Gazit & Co. is a leading boutique
law firm, long-established and well-re-
spected, and is one of Israel’s top law
firms, which specializes in the taxation sector.
The firmwas established by Adv. Ram Joulus and
Adv. Racheli Gazit, two of Israel’s most eminent
and valued tax specialists, to provide profes-
sional and creative solutions to public enterpris-
es including banking institutions, government
agencies, NPOs, local authorities, commercial
corporations and real estate companies as well
as Israeli and overseas businesspeople.
The firm provides clients with support, consul-
tancy and representation of the highest profes-
sional level on a wide range of taxation aspects
including insolvency tax, income tax, real estate
tax, indirect tax (VAT, customs duties, purchase
tax, and excise), and international taxation. The
firm’s services include consultancy, support,
and tax planning, preliminary examinations of
tax liabilities, detailed professional opinions,
voluntary disclosure proceedings, support and
representation before the various tax authorities
in assessment proceedings, receiving pre-ruling
decisions, and representation in court. The firm
also provides consultancy and planning services
for the tax aspects of deals for leading Israeli
companies.
Due to its familiarity with tax laws and the taxa-
tion, legislation and court system as well as
its expertise in taxation, the firm’s staff offers
clients an accurate, broad, smart and creative
picture of all the tax aspects of a deal with op-
timal adjustment to unique characteristics and
requirements.
An “elite unit” operates within the firm com-
prised of experienced lawyers, sharp thinkers,
creative, and imaginative, serving as a profes-
sional address and consultant to the firm’s cli-
ents as well as colleagues in leading law and
accounting firms, who approach the firm for
support in handling tax matters for their clients.
The firm’s staff is deeply involved in endeavors
in this sector, lecturing at seminars and confer-
ences, leading professional panels, publishing
professional articles and content for online pro-
fessional literature.
Practice Areas
Income Tax
The firm’s staff has gained valuable knowhow
and practical experience in the income tax
sector based on the experience of consulting
partner Adv. Yacov Joulus as Deputy Income Tax
Commissioner and the experience of Founding
Partner Adv. Ram Joulus as head of the Liquida-
tions, Receiverships and Bankruptcies Unit of
the Income tax Commission.
The firm is involved in preparing professional
opinions, planning deals in order to reduce tax
liability, conducting assessment proceedings
with the Tax Authority and representation in
court appeals.
In this field, the firm handles tax aspects of
mergers and spinoffs, companies tax, partner-
ship tax, personal tax, employees’ options,
capital market, tax arrangements in voluntary
disclosure proceedings, trustee tax, laws for
encouraging investment, and tax aspects of
financing deals.
Insolvency Proceedings Tax
Joulus Gazit & Co. is Israel’s leading law firm in
the field of taxation in insolvency proceedings
including receiverships, liquidations, bank-
ruptcies, bond arrangements and creditors ar-
rangements,. The firm’s expert team advises
organizations involved in insolvency tax includ-
ing banking institutions, institutional bodies,
bondholders, local authorities, and executive
holders including liquidators, receivers, trustees
in creditors arrangements, trustees in bond ar-
rangements, and trustees in bankruptcies.
The firm, which is Israel’s leader in this sector, is
involved in most of Israel’s insolvency proceed-
ings and large bonds arrangements, and is in-
volved in legislation proceedings in the field and
serves as an advisor to the Official Receiver.
VAT
The firm’s staff is involved in filing professional
opinions, tax planning, support and representa-
tion before the Tax Authority and courts.
Real Estate Taxation
The firm’s staff renders legal opinions, tax plan-
ning, supporting deals and preparing docu-
ments for developers and private and public
construction companies in a range of real es-
tate deals including combination deals and
exchanges, urban renewal (TAMA 38, clear and
build), purchasing groups, building rights tax,
real estate associations, and more.
International Taxation
The firm’s staff possesses extensive and broad
knowhow in international taxation issues and
international covenants for preventing double
taxation and renders legal support services to
returning residents and new immigrants, overall
aspects of voluntary disclosure, planning inter-
national operations, and more.
The Partners
Adv. Ram Joulus: LL.B. Law, B.A. Accounting,
Tel Aviv University. Qualified as a lawyer since
1994. Supports, consults, and represents Is-
rael’s largest companies and organizations on
a regular basis in complex deals and range of
tax arrangements. He founded and managed
the Unit for Liquidations, Receiverships and
Bankruptcies Unit at the Income tax Commis-
sion. He lectures on Tax and Accounting at Tel
Aviv University, College of management, the
Interdisciplinary Center, and Ruppin College.
He co-authored the text books on taxation pub-
lished by the Open University. He writes many
articles in professional periodicals and daily
newspapers on tax matters.
Adv. Racheli Gazit: LL.B. Law (cum laude) LL.M.
Law Bar-Ilan University. Qualified as a lawyer
since 2001. She has special expertise and ma-
jor experience in representation in assessment
procedures with the Tax Authority and courts.
Supports and consults for public and private
organizations, handles large-scale tax planning,
leads some of Israel’s largest cases in insol-
vency taxation. In the past, she specialized
and worked as a lawyer in the Military Advocate
General’s Office, serving as Acting Military Com-
mand Prosecutor.
Esta b l is h ed
2000
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Legal services in the tax sector
3 Rothschild Blvd., Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-3-5757173
Fax: 972-3-5757174
Adv. Ram Joulus
Founder Partner *
Adv. Racheli Gazit
Founder Partner *
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582