Behavioral Intention To Pay Zakah On Employment Income Among Academicians In Kano State, Nigeria
| Main Author: | Kabiru Isa Dandago |
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| Format: | Journal |
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Departement Of Islamice And Flnance Bank Indenesia
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Daftar Isi:
- The institution of zakah is the cornerstone of the islamic economic system and the disbursement of the zakah fund in line with the Qur'anic injuction ensures equitable distribution and transfer of wealth from the rich espencially in realizing the goal of zakah in poverty rwduction. For instance, zakah on employment income is lergely neglected despite is juristic backing and changing economic structure that creates high professional income earners that from either upper midlle class or lower middle class the society. The objective of this paper is to explore the intetion of income earners to pay zakah on their employment income in Kano state as this will add to the zakatable sources. of the state zakah commission. The paper employed theory of reasoned Action to examine the behavioral intetion of 300 academics across kano state goverment owned tertiary educational institutions to pay zakah on their income. Structual equation modeling was used to analyze the data collected. The overall result shows that the respondents have favorable behavioral intetion towards payment of zakah on emploment income. Specifically, the positive effect to both attitudanal beliefs and subjective norm on the behavioral intetion is revealed Hence, the need to come up with a comprehensive policy that will boost zakah collection, consequently its distribution to reduce extreme poverty in the state.