The objective of Zakah and Tax That Same
SOLO, KOMPAS.com – Chairman of the Board of the National Zakat (Baznas) Didin Hafidhuddin zakat and tax rate is the financial resources that have the same state, namely the welfare of society.
“Just different ways of distribution,” said Didi as the representative of the Indonesian delegation in the meeting members of the Organization of the Ministry of Religious Affairs Zakat Indonesia-Malaysia-Brunei-Singapore (MABIMS) in Solo, Thursday (06/10/2010).
According to Didi, the idea of integrating the whole tithe to the tax law to require several steps and then disseminated to the public.
Didin example, the use of tax revenues according to government regulations for developing the country extensively, such as financing the state administration, while the charity may be submitted directly to the recipient via specialized agency which approved the state. “We propose that zakat is to reduce direct taxes,” he said.
These efforts, he said, was done in Malaysia such as tax credit intake. If Muslims taxpayers USD 15 million, after they gave alms to Rp 10 million, then the rest of taxes to be paid Rp 5 million. “So no one harmed, finance have the same goal to build a welfare state,” he said.
In fact, he said, charity is more transparent way of managing that can reduce corruption in this country.
Proposed amendments to Law No. 38/1999 on Management of Zakat in order to cut the new credit immediately boiled at Parliament level.
According to him, zakat as a tax credit will have a positive impact both in the form of increased revenues due to the integrated system will be known to the data property tax payers that could be used for charity.
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