Islamic State imposes taxes ( Zakat) on the rich

Cross- cutting resources informed SOHR that Islamic State has imposed on businessmen and owners of factories in IS- held areas in the northeast of Aleppo to pay “Zakat” (the practice of taxation and redistribution, imposed upon Muslims on their income and wealth.) for “ al- Zakat Office” of Islamic State. The resources informed SOHR that IS organization forced the trader and industrialists to pay 2.5% on every sum of money that is equal to 100g of gold every years.

 

The same sources reported to SOHR that the traders and industrialists informed IS that they take care of poor people and pay Zakat for them but the organization told them to send these families to “ al- Zakat Office” to study their situation and give them Zakat if they deserve it, and that everything paid for poor people without reference to “al- Zakat Office” is considered charity and does not exempt him from paying Zakat.

 

Weeks ago, IS distributed sums of money on some poor families in the city of al- Raqqa, where IS told the people that these sums are “money of Zakat” collected from the rich of the city.