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However, the amount of zakat paid on capital assets (e.g. money) and stock-in-trade and jewelry is customarily 2.5% (1/40). [8] Zakat is also payable on agricultural goods, precious metals, minerals, and livestock at a rate varying between 2.5 and 20 percent, depending on the type of goods.
[2] [40] In the early 1980s, Dato' Shaikh Mahmood Bin Haji Ismail Naim explored new avenues for zakat collection in Kedah, expanding the focus to encompass business, property, and salary zakat. [40] The Kedah State Zakat Committee actively organizes muzakarah sessions and seminars to develop new laws pertaining to zakat collection and distribution.
Zakat al-Fitr is a fixed amount assessed per person, while Zakat al mal is based on personal income and property. [106] According to one source, the Hidaya Foundation, the suggested Zakat al Fitr donation is based on the price of 1 Saa (approx. 3 kg) of rice or wheat at local costs, (as of 2015, approximately $7.00 in the U.S.).
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The U.S. bond market will also be closed on Thursday and are scheduled to close at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
In Pakistan Zakat is levied on sahib-e-nisab, i.e. a person who owns or possesses assets liable to Zakat under Shariah equal to or more than nisab, (about US $300, calculated according to the value of 612.32 grams of silver [6]). [1] There are eleven types of assets liable to Zakat "detailed in 1st schedule of Zakat & Ushr Ordinance 1980". [7]
In Islamic legal terminology, "spoils of war" refers to property and wealth looted by the Muslim army after battling with non-Muslims or raiding them. [2] Khums is the first Islamic tax, which was imposed in 2 AH/624 CE, [a] after the Battle of Badr. [3] It is separate from other Islamic taxes [b] such as zakat and jizya.