In Israel, if you are assigned an employer car, you generally have to prove you don’t make personal use of it to avoid taxation - e.g. prove it isn’t in use almost every weekend (usually done by parking in a managed lot and showing the receipts or stuff like that).

The vast majority of people prefer to also use the car privately, and pay the tax (which is reasonable, if taxation is reasonable).

Cars that keep rotating between drivers are not subject to that (but exact record keeping of driver and trip required to avoid tax)

Similarly, employer provided phone subscription is assumed to be partly private use (50% of monthly subscription cost considered a a taxable benefit iirc), not sure what hoops you need to jump through to prove it is not private use at all. (But phone plans are cheap - excellent domestic plans are $10 or so)

It's up to you if you want to use company provided equipment for personal/private use or not. If you declare that it's only used for work purposes, there is no tax. The tax makes sense, because it's effectively extra salary (eg if the company gave you a leased car).

> so you get charged a tax when an employer gives you equipment required for work?

Obviously this only happens when the equipment you get can plausibly be used for personal purposes. Such as a company car.

> What happens if you can't afford that tax then?

That's extremely unlikely.