zakat = tax deductable?

[sadiav]

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Is it permissible to file a tax return for money given as zakat, with the intention to donate it all back to charity again once received

Jazaka Allahu Khayrane

[Rabiah - la Voyageure ©]

Living in North America, if ones pays zakaah to islamic organizations, they will return a receipt to you that you can claim on your income tax return and get a refund from the government. If the islamic organization gets the full amount one paid as zakaah and loses nothing as a result of the tax difference then, the zakaah is paid and one may use the money from the tax refund for personal expenditures. (kahf.net)

Allahu Alem.

[UmA]

Jazakillahu khayra. Did we learn something else in class?

[Muhammad Alshareef]

We learned that a person should not benefit from their zakah. this is what I learned according to the shafi'ee opinion.

Dr.Kahf however knows his stuff a thousand times more then I do. So, in sha Allah, the opinion the brother posted is an opinion of a scholar on the subject.

[UmA]

I just wanted to double check..do I pay zakah on a tax return a year after I receive the return or as soon as I receive it?

I was thinking that a tax return is a result of the previous year's payments so I wasn't sure when to start the hawl.

jazakumullahu khayra

[Muhammad Alshareef]

I just wanted to double check..do I pay zakah on a tax return a year after I receive the return or as soon as I receive it?

I was thinking that a tax return is a result of the previous year's payments so I wasn't sure when to start the hawl.

jazakumullahu khayra

alhamdulillah.

A year after.

Even though it was due to you, you didn't have control of it, so it's not totally 'your' money.


wAllahu a'lam.