Iris Weinberger

Iris Weinberger is a partner in Herzog’s Tax Department, an expert with over 21 years of experience. Iris advises international and local companies, dealers, non-profit organisations and financial institutions regarding their indirect taxes and provides her legal opinion in these areas. She represents her clients during tax assessment processes, evaluations issued by the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) and applications for receiving a ruling. In her previous role as the Senior Deputy General Counsel at the ITA, Iris managed the ITA's legal counsel in numerous areas, was the forefront of important reforms and provided legal advice to the ITA's management. She was integral in determining the interpretation of tax provisions, issuing taxation decisions and formulating the ITA's positions as presented in court.

• Achieved a ruling with respect to the exemption of output tax for services given by foreign financial institutions. Under this ruling, the ITA approved a change in classification for VAT matters from dealer to non-profit organisations, while achieving reduced liability of output tax
• Represents an industrial company that is an exporter with a logistics center in Israel, against the ITA, in order to create a new customs process that will allow imports for the purpose of exporting certain activities without being subject to imports tax, and subject to lenient conditions, and reducing the deficit that was withdrawn from the company by the Customs
• Represented FedEx Corporation in the acquisition of Flying Cargo's International Express business with regards to the tax matters

• Indirect Taxes
• Customs & International Trade
• Imports & Exports
• Value Added Tax and Excise Duty

• Consumer Goods and Services
• Real Estate
• Automotives
• Fuel and Alcohol

• Advisor to the Imports, Customs and Standardization Committee of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce
• Senior Deputy General Counsel at the Israeli Tax Authority, 1996-2016

• LLM (cum laude), Hebrew University, 1998
• LL.B, Bar-Ilan University, 1994

• Israel, 1995