{"id":5730,"date":"2017-03-06T09:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.co\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2017-03-06T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:20:19","slug":"will-sales-tax-be-considered-in-fixing-the-price-of-zakat-mahr-fatimi-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=5730","title":{"rendered":"Will Sales Tax be Considered in Determining the Price of Zakat and Mahr Fatimi etc.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Question:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this country, financial transactions are made with a sales tax (VAT). So, will one add the VAT when calculating the price of gold and silver for paying <em>Zakat<\/em> and <em>Mahr Fatimi<\/em> and when calculating the <em>nisab<\/em> for <em>Qurbani <\/em>(<em>Udhiyah<\/em>\/Sacrifice)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Answer:\u00a0\u062d\u0627\u0645\u062f\u0627 \u0648\u0645\u0635\u0644\u064a\u0627 \u0648\u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645\u0627<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the sales tax is considered part of the price and without it financial transactions cannot be made, then it will also be taken into consideration when fixing the price. If one is paying <em>Zakat<\/em> and <em>Mahr Fatimi<\/em> and one is fixing the <em>nisab<\/em> of <em>Qurbani<\/em> (<em>Udhiyah<\/em>\/Sacrifice)\u00a0based on their prices, then it (tax) will be counted in the prices. This is because all those factors which cause an increase or decrease in value is taken into consideration when determining a price.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, if someone has gold or silver itself, then its weight is taken into consideration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Allah Ta\u2019ala knows best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0(Hazrat Mufti) Ahmed Khanpuri (May Allah preserve him.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mahmoodul Fatawa<\/span> Vol.5 Pg.434<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In this country, financial transactions are made with a sales tax (VAT). So, will one add the VAT when calculating the price of gold&#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":[41,59,73,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fardh-zakat","category-nikah-marriage","category-udhiyah-aqeeqah","category-wajib-sadaqah","wpcat-41-id","wpcat-59-id","wpcat-73-id","wpcat-28-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730","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=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}