By David Isaac
The NIF is incorporated as a foreign company in Israel and therefore its Israeli donors aren’t entitled to tax benefits.
The resolution is the second-largest recovery by the Department of Justice in connection with its investigations since 2008 into the facilitation of offshore US tax evasion by foreign banks.
There are also 55 Palestinians on the list, both from the West Bank and Gaza, with a combined $148 million safely tucked away in Geneva.
Bank Leumi’s admission is the first time an Israel bank has confessed to helping U.S. customers evade taxes.
A plan to stop tax evasion also threatens to break all limits of confidentiality of Americans in Israel.
A new Israeli government committee has 90 days to present to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ideas on how to implement a more cashless society, with free electronic charge cards to replace cash transactions in a war against the “underground” economy.” The cash cards, unlike credit cards, will be available to poor people on welfare or […]
Jews in Judea and Samaria know it is lawless on the roads. Arabs drive with unlicensed cars. They steal water and do not pay taxes. A new Ombudsman’s report bares some of the facts – but not all.