About

The Firm

The firm was founded by attorneys Alex Katz, Erez Geva, and Motti Itzkovitz, with taxation as its primary field of practice. The firm currently employs 41 permanent staff members, including 15 attorneys, all of whom specialize in municipal taxation. In addition to their legal education, the firm's founders and senior attorneys hold economic and accounting degrees.

Alongside the legal team, the firm employs additional professionals, including economists, a certified surveyor, surveyors, draftsmen, and real estate appraisers.

The firm specializes in all matters concerning payments to various authorities and has been responsible for numerous rulings across all fields, including: general property tax (Arnona), development levies, betterment levies, lease and permit fees, water and sewage payments, and more. The firm also specializes in planning and building law.

The firm's founders have been active in the field since the 1990s, accumulating extensive professional knowledge and reputation while securing dozens of legal rulings and precedents. Their experience includes appearances in all judicial instances and the representation of asset-rich entities before all local authorities. The founders have successfully obtained decisions in various appeals committees, courts, and rulings and judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel. The cumulative savings achieved for clients handled by the firm's founders exceed 9.5 billion NIS.

1. Unique Advantages – Specialized Expertise and Knowledge

Specialized Expertise and Knowledge: The firm and its partners previously handled Israel Shipyards and possess comprehensive familiarity with the Haifa property and every detail of its property tax history.

Our firm has never represented local authorities and/or planning and building institutions.

The firm is equipped to handle assessments of extremely large financial scale as well as unique cases.

2. Approach to Handling Matters

The firm's founders possess rich litigation experience across all legal instances, as well as in conducting negotiations with various authorities, including the Haifa Municipality. The firm and its partners provide personal accompaniment and actively handle a very large share of the firm's cases, including appearances before various judicial instances and assessment hearings with representatives of the various authorities.

3. Core Values

Professional and thorough handling, excellent customer service, fast response time, all while maintaining proper working relationships with the relevant authorities.

4. Firm Infrastructure

The firm is equipped to handle a large volume of municipal charges for properties nationwide. The firm's computerized systems include a dedicated and unique property management system used for the ongoing management of thousands of charges and properties. The system is designed to ingest numerous diverse charges from nationwide clients (including peripheral localities) and provide fast, simultaneous, and effective responses. Once billing data is entered into the system, information is processed, anomalies are identified, and diverse reports are generated, enabling in-depth macro and micro analysis of the data and optimal handling, with full client involvement throughout the process. The system includes synchronization capabilities with clients' existing information systems (SAP).

5. Avoidance of Representing Local Authorities

As noted, the firm has never represented local authorities and/or planning and building institutions and has made it a policy not to provide services to local authorities and/or planning institutions in the future either.

Alongside this commitment, the firm's founders have maintained in the past—and will continue to maintain in the future—good working relationships with the relevant parties in the various authorities, who recognize their standing and value, all while fully safeguarding the interests of the firm's clients, recognizing the need to preserve the relationship between the firm's clients and the local authorities within which they operate.

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