Tax offenses, money laundering and forfeitures (criminal taxation)

In recent years there have been an increasing number of cases where controlling shareholders and even counsel have been investigated on the suspicion of criminal tax offenses. Amendment no. 14 to the Prohibition of Money Laundering Law turned tax offenses into predicate offenses, such that forfeitures have also become commonly used in suspected tax offenses.

Our firm specializes in representing clients with respect to tax offenses, in income tax and VAT. The area of tax offenses requires an in-depth understanding and experience in the areas of criminal and evidence law; together with a thorough understanding of the accounting and tax law aspects, and  in-depth familiarity of the work of the investigating authority, and the tools it uses.
The practice of tax offenses includes acting on reaching plea bargains and applying for ransom payments, and cannot be isolated from dealing with the civil tax assessment. Moreover, in recent years, most cases of acting on tax offenses require comprehensively dealing with issues involved in prohibition on money laundering laws, both on the criminal level and in the framework of the forfeiture powers and motion for the return of forfeited property, which also raise complex questions in tax laws.
Moshe Mizrachi, Noach, Kriegel & Co. acts on a variety of issues in the area of tax offenses, while providing comprehensive legal representation for a variety of aspects that arise in the framework of criminal proceedings. In this regard, Adv. (CPA) Moshe Mizrachi provides legal consultation arising from the vast experience that he gained when managing criminal files, both in the period when he served as head of the Tax Department in the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, and whilst he served as Legal Advisor to the Israel Tax Authority.