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Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia

52 (1) 2018 145 – 156

Cadangan Kodifikasi Akta Zakat Nasional dan Penubuhan Majlis Zakat Negara
Proposal on Codification of the National Zakat Act and the Establishment of the National Zakat Council

Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi Selangor

suffian@mawip.gov.com

Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi Selangor

ali@ukm.edu.my

Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi Selangor

hairun@ukm.edu.my

Abstract

One of the few impasses in the governance of zakat management throughout Malaysia is to overcome the impact of incomprehensive legislation conundrums on zakat. These include the problems of zakat enforcement and the nonuniformity of law between states in Malaysia. The postulated issues have been seen as the driving force of more pressing social maladies, and contribute to a series of collective zakat evasions in the society, loss of confidence in zakat institutions, and most importantly, the small amounts of distribution to the needy throughout all states in Malaysia. These conundrums can be mitigated by codifying National Zakat Act via enforcement of a uniformed legislation at the Federal level,. This is specifically aimed towards zakat on income i.e. being the forefront source of zakat institutions for the states. Thus, this study explores early perception of zakat payers, enforcers (amil) and state-level members of the jurisdictions (legislators) on the codification proposal and its implications. This study uses logistic binomial method. The study shows that majority of respondents agreed with the notion of codifying the National Zakat Act. Their agreement are influenced by age, education and perception on codification acts among the payers. Meanwhile posts and perception on the codification influenced the amil. This study proposes an establishment of Majlis Zakat Negara (MZN) for the reinvigorated Act to be realised and enforced at the earliest opportunity based on the fiscal federalism concept on collective centralization (collection) and decentralization governance (distribution) to ensure a policy of a fair and balanced zakat distribution.

Keywords

centralized collection; decentralized distribution; zakat
http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/JEM-2018-5201-12
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Mohamed Esa, , Mohd noor, , & Wahid, (2018). Cadangan Kodifikasi Akta Zakat Nasional dan Penubuhan Majlis Zakat Negara. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 52(1), 145–156. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/JEM-2018-5201-12

@article{esa2018cadangan,
  title={Cadangan Kodifikasi Akta Zakat Nasional dan Penubuhan Majlis Zakat Negara},
  author={Mohamed Esa, Mohd Suffian and Mohd noor, mohd ali and Wahid, Hairunnizam},
  journal={Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia},
  volume={52},
  number={1},
  pages={145—156},
 

year={2018},
}

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