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The current Algerian tax system consists of 2 regimes, the real [1] and fixed regimes. [2] This distinction issued from the reform implemented in 2007 when the taxation was revised. The main incentive to review the taxes was that after the 2000s energy crisis, taxes became the main resource of national income. That is why the incentive to work ...
According in Encyclopedia Iranica, the Arabic word jizya is most likely derived from Middle Persian gazītak, which denoted a tax levied on the lower classes of society in Sasanian Persia, from which the nobles, clergy, landowners , and scribes (or civil servants, dabirān) were exempted. Muslim Arab conquerors largely retained the taxation ...
The Association of Tax Authorities of Islamic Countries (ATAIC; French: Association des autorités fiscales des pays islamiques; Arabic: رابطة السلطات الضريبية للدول الإسلامية) is an intergovernmental organization and one of the 17 affiliated organs of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Islamic taxes are taxes sanctioned by Islamic law. [1] They are based on both "the legal status of taxable land" and on "the communal or religious status of the taxpayer". [1] Islamic taxes include zakat - one of the five pillars of Islam. Only imposed on Muslims, it is generally described as a 2.5% tax on savings for charity.
Between the 9th and 14th centuries, the Muslim world developed many advanced economic concepts, techniques and usages. These ranged from areas of production, investment, finance, economic development, taxation, property use such as Hawala: an early informal value transfer system, Islamic trusts, known as waqf, systems of contract relied upon by merchants, a widely circulated common currency ...
Algeria, [e] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [f] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algerian Arabic (Arabic: الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-Dārja al-Jazairia), natively known as Dziria, Darja or Derja, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Algeria. It belongs to the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum and is mostly intelligible with the Tunisian and Moroccan dialects. [ 2 ]
Most Jews of Algeria once spoke dialects of Arabic specific to their community, collectively termed Judeo-Arabic. After Algeria became independent in 1962, it tried to improve fluency by importing Arabic teachers from Egypt and Syria. Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star said that many of the instructors were unqualified. [13]