Taxes are no laughing matter in Israel, yet one of the funniest things I discovered is that the Israeli Tax Authority deducts Income Tax from the payments received by Palestinian Terrorists formerly or currently jailed in Israel. The payments in the year 2018 totaled 502 million shekels (15 million US dollars). The average income tax being 30%, the Tax Authority pocketed 4.5 million dollars in 2018. The terrorists and their families receive monthly payments from the Palestinian Authority, financed by donations from the European Union and the rich Gulf Sheikhdoms. To maintain the usual income levels of the murderers aka freedom fighters, their salaries were increased as from January 2019 to compensate for the tax deduction.
I think that the tax dis-incentivates the fomenting terrorism by anti-Israeli States. The more terror, the more income for the Israeli Tax Authority.
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