{"id":4986,"date":"2016-06-19T21:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.co\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2016-06-19T21:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:47:55","slug":"undervaluing-merchandise-to-evade-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=4986","title":{"rendered":"Undervaluing Merchandise to Evade Sales Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Question<\/span> Concerning Sales Tax:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A. Zaid sold a product to a customer and took ten dollars in taxes. For example, an item which cost $100, he added $10 taxes and took $110. However he declared $90 to the Government. What is the ruling of this case?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">B. Zaid ordered a hundred thousand dollars in merchandise and declared fifty thousand to the Government. Is this permissible from a Shar\u2019ee perspective?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Answer:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A. His declaration of the price at $90 to the Government is a lie and deception, which is haram (prohibited in Shariah).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">B. This is a lie and deception, which is haram (prohibited in Shariah).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And Allah Ta\u2019ala knows best.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mahmoodul Fatawa<\/span> Vol.5 Pg.429-430<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question Concerning Sales Tax: A. Zaid sold a product to a customer and took ten dollars in taxes. For example, an item which cost $100,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[226,308],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-transactions","tag-mahmoodul-fatawa","tag-trade","wpcat-43-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}