Compensation fund filing extended to 31 December
On 19 August the Tax Authority's compensation fund announced an extension of the final filing date on some of the indirect-damage tracks from Operation Roaring Lion. The tracks page now shows the new date: the turnover, wages and agriculture track for May-June 2026 is open for filing until 31 December 2026. When the track opened on 16 July, the date set was 15 November.
That same date, 31 December 2026, now also applies to the grant for business owners who served in the reserves, across every eligibility period opened so far.
What is open now
The turnover track compensates for profit lost during the eligibility months. The agriculture track pays 13,615 shekels for each worker employed on farmland in the qualifying localities. Both of those, together with the wages track, are limited to localities on the confrontation line, the Upper Galilee and the northern Golan, plus Katzrin and Kidmat Tzvi.
The wages track covers wages paid to employees who were absent from work because of the security situation, at 550 shekels per full working day.
The qualifying-expenses track for May-June 2026 opened on 18 August, for businesses hit directly by a missile or blast whose activity was shut down as a result. The conditions: the business opened by 27 February 2026, turnover between 12,000 and 400 million shekels in 2022, and a drop of at least 25% in turnover. Filing there runs until 17 November 2026.
What actually blocks a claim
The condition that sinks claims is not the date. Filing requires a periodic VAT return already submitted for both the eligibility period and the base period, and a withholding return for the eligibility period if the business has employees. A business sitting on one unfiled periodic return from a year ago cannot file until it closes that return.
The extension did not touch the eligibility conditions, only the time. Anyone whose drop in turnover is already documented in returns that were filed can submit now and get an answer before the year ends. Anyone waiting for the last moment will find that the last moment depends on an old VAT return rather than on the calendar.