Towards A Unified Zakat System

The ranking of institutions' means is identical to theprevious table. The chi-square statistics are allinsignificant, even at the 20 percent level. This stronglysuggests that there is no significant difference in attitudebetween the four countries.Although the table reveals that respondents from Bahrain doprefer charitable organisation over the Department of Zakat,this can be explained on the grounds that Zakat is notregulated in Bahrain and charitable organisations arecurrently responsible for collecting and distributing Zakat.From the table, similarities of respondents' answers fromSaudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates can reiterated.Kuwait and Bahrain are also similar, but to a lesser degree.Because national banks deal with riba (interest), they donot receive much support from respondents from the fourcountries surveyed countries.6.2.5 The percentage of Zakat that should be paidIn an attempt to identify the percentage of Zakat thatshould be paid to the collection authority, a list ofchoices were given to the respondents to express the extentof agreement and disagreement. Analyses of their answers byoccupation and by country are reported in tables 6.7(a) and6.7(b)respectively.222