What is the ruling on working for a company that evades paying its due taxes, knowing that its owner pays the actual zakat on it, and what is the ruling on participating in preparing tax evasion accounts?
Taxes are of two types:
- Lawful: They must be paid if they are in exchange for special or general services provided by the state when needed, and they are not to be counted as .
- Unlawful: It is permissible to evade them if they are taken unjustly, or spent on forbidden things, or if the state imposes them without need.
Working for a permissible company is not objectionable, even if the company evades its taxes, as the responsibility for rights remains with the company.
As for preparing tax accounts, it is permissible if the taxes are of the lawful type, but not permissible if they are of the unlawful type, as this would fall under cooperating in sin and aggression.
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