Zakat On Household (Collective Zakat And Zakat On Behalf Of Wife)
Understood. Just one thing is not clear. If my wife has paid 8% tax from her income throughout the year, can my overpaid tax adjust her remaining 2%? Or she is liable to pay?
If a husband chooses to pay Zakat in cash on behalf of his wife, then he may likewise choose to designate taxes already paid as her Zakat. The only practical difference between the two is the timing: cash Zakat is assigned at the moment of payment, whereas tax payments are assigned retroactively. In both cases, the payments themselves already exist; what changes is the husband’s decision about how those payments are to be applied.