Islamic Tax System Abolished by Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan — This country’s transitional government has abolished the Islamic system of taxation introduced in 1984 by deposed President Jaafar Numeiri and will revert to a conventional Western-style system.
Finance Minister Awad Abdel-Majeed told a weekend news conference that the transitional government would draft a new tax law along the lines of the 1971 system in the next few days.
The Zakat (Islamic) tax system, which assesses businessmen according to their capital and discriminates against farmers, was widely criticized, and funds proved almost impossible to collect.
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