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Towards A Unified Zakat System

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as well as with the standard for the estimations of the<strong>Zakat</strong> pool of trade activity, in accordance with thefollowingprovisions.a) Bad debts should be real rather than false.b) A decision must be made towards cancelling these debtsfrom the concerned authority within the firm.c) The firm must have carried out the legal and actual re-claiming procedures, and more than one year must haveelapsed since these reclaims were made.d) The firm must prove the inability of the debtors to paythese debts, such as in bankruptcy cases by a judicialverdict, or in cases of debtors stopping payments due totheir insolvency; and,e) the firm has to pledge to primarily include any collectedbad debts in the future within the <strong>Zakat</strong> declaration.5.2.9.8 Fees of firm's board of directorsAccording to the Saudi Organisation of Certified PublicAccountants (1997), the Saudi Department of <strong>Zakat</strong> andIncome excludes all that members of a company's board ofdirectors obtain in terms of fees or rewards fromexpenditures and does not allow discounting them from therevenues when determining the <strong>Zakat</strong> pool of trade activity.The <strong>Zakat</strong> department justifies this action in that these173

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