Government's Right Of Taxation / Collecting Zakat
What Ghamidi sahab is commenting upon in the referenced video is a logical conclusion based upon moral principles. Firstly, there are no moral grounds upon which a man who is born free on God’s earth be forced to pay a certain portion of his earnings to a government. Secondly, there is no scale to determine how much tax a government can morally take from its citizens. Finally, there is no moral criterion to determine what purposes such tax money can be spent on by any government. Since we know that governments require money for their operations as well as in providing facilities for their citizens, God has instituted a system of Zakat with all the pertinent details that humans otherwise had no moral authority to establish. For citizens, Zakat has been established by God as a form of worship, while for the governments it has been established as a right that they can forcefully implement. For details of the Sharia of Zakat, please see: Discussion 46733