About Jacky Matza

Matza Jacky Israeli license. Member of the Institute of CPAs in Israel.

Academic Degrees: Economics and Accounting, B.A. Law, LL.B.

Professional Experience: An expert in Israeli and international tax. Mr. Matza accompanies and consults many leading Israeli organizations and corporations in all their tax matters, as well as individuals and private investors operating in Israel and abroad, and foreign investors operating in Israel. In addition, he handles tax planning for corporations and individuals, accompaniment of complex transactions, and effective representation before the tax authorities in civil and criminal matters (assessment procedures, tax penalties, voluntary disclosure). He is especially successful in obtaining pre-ruling authorizations from the Tax Authority, particularly in organizational restructuring (mergers, separations and asset transfers).

Positions: Jacky Matza, CPA and jurist, is the former head of the Israel Tax Authority, where he was in charge of steering the country's tax policy and the chief executive of all Tax Authority departments: Income Tax, Investigations, VAT, Real Estate Taxation and Property Tax and Customs. While heading the Tax Authority, Mr. Matza received the Prime Minister's Badge, honoring the authority's legislative activity, and its involvement in compensation through property tax following the Second Lebanon War. Prior to this, Matza served as VP for professional matters, and as Director of the Tax Authority's Professional Division. In this capacity, he led Israel's tax legislation, both in direct and indirect taxation law. Matza was in charge of setting the professional policy in the Authority, of supervising the professional aspects of the Coordinators' work at the income tax, real estate taxation and VAT offices and also of the International Taxation Department. As head of the Tax Authority Matza led negotiations with foreign tax authorities for the signing of double tax avoidance treaties. In this role, he also chaired the Committee on Pre-ruling. Matza was head of the Pre-Ruling Institute, which administered hundreds of taxation rulings. Matza headed the Investigations and Intelligence Department at the Income and Real Estate Taxation Department, and was Deputy to the Income Tax Investigations Commissioner. There, within a committee, Matza set the guidelines for tax penalty procedures, headed the investigative and intelligence operations of the department, and also headed the national tax penalty committee. He also set the guidelines for voluntary disclosure processes. Matza oversaw the management of hundreds of tax offense investigations, and also the field of criminal consultancy working with civilian assessment clerks. Since ending his term as Head of the Tax Authority, Matza has been implementing skills learned in his previous roles at the Tax Authority, Income Tax Department and Real Estate Taxation Department (Head of the Tax Authority, VP of the Professional Division and Deputy to the Income Tax Commissioner – Investigations and Intelligence), and the vast and unique experience gathered over years in his fields of expertise: Income Tax, International Taxation, Real Estate Taxation, and VAT. In addition, Matza served as a member of the Tel Aviv District Committee at the Institute of CPAs in Israel as well as the coordinator of the Further Education Committee

Teaching Positions: A Senior lecturer at several leading academic institutions, and a regular lecturer at conventions and conferences of the Institute of CPAs in Israel and other organizations.. At the Tax Authority he oversaw the Income Tax Controllers Program.

Books and Articles: Author of dozens of professional circulars and articles in the field of direct and indirect taxes published in professional magazines and national newspapers.

Email Address: jacky@matza.org.il