Giving a false statement about one’s salary to avoid paying taxes that one has already agreed to pay
Question: 5218
A university teacher’s employers have stipulated a condition that they will give him unpaid leave if he gives 25% of the income that he earns from another employer to an interest-based bank, so that they will take part of it as a tax. Is it permissible for him to give an incorrect statement of his
income so that he can avoid putting a larger amount in the bank for the tax to be deducted from it?
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
The following question was put to Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih
al-‘Uthaymeen, may Allaah preserve him, who replied as follows:
It seems that it is not permissible, because he has a contract with
them, and if he has a contract with them it is not permissible for him to try to cheat
their system.
Question: even if it involves an unfair tax?
Answer: but he agreed to that from the outset.
And Allaah knows best.
Source:
Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen
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