A four volume official Taxpayers Register has been made public here for the second year in a row. The massive work lists the tax assessments for all companies and kbbutzim in Israel, as well as of self-employed individuals with assessed incomes of more than 2,000 Israel pounds and employed persons with assessed incomes of more than 3,000 pounds.
Top income assessment in the country was that of Bank Leumi, which earned 2,580,000 pounds–more than 3 times its runner-up, Nesher Bonds, which earned 848,685 pounds. Top individual earner in the country was a Haifa building contractor, Yehiel Yacobowitz, with 703,700 pounds–closely followed by Moshe Basenzik, a Tel Aviv cabinet maker, whose income was listed as 702,400 pounds and Avraham Horowitz, Ramat Gan electrical contractor, with 702,000 pounds.
Givat Brenner topped the list of kibbutzim with an assessed income of 860,171 pounds–an average of 2,575 pounds per member. Top earner among Israel’s physicians was Dr. Y. Asherman, of Tel Aviv, with 18,500 pounds, closely followed by Dr. S. Goz of Haifa, who was said to have earned 18,394 pounds. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv lawyers Zvi Schwartz and M. Gaspi led their occupational list with 35,000 pounds each.
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