ISIS and the beard tax

After losing 30% of the previously conquered territory, and consequently 30% of the tax revenues and above all the exploitation of oil, ISIS has tightened its tax recovery measures. Vices and social behavior not “adhering” to their precepts have a list of very specific fines, and the organization’s financial difficulties are confirmed by the fact that coerced tax collections are overcoming the corporal punishments.

A fashionable "abaya" dress, this would be no-compliance for ISIS
A fashionable “abaya” dress, this would be no-compliance for ISIS

If women do not cover carefully their eyes behind triple veils: $ 10 fine. If they wear a “abaya” too “tight”: $ 25. If they forget to wear socks or gloves: $ 30. For men who shave their beards: $ 100 fine. For those who cut shorter beard: $ 50. And for anyone who does not know how to answer the sudden questions on the Koran or Islamic law asked by the “vigilants” of the Caliphate: $ 20.

Gloves for burka
Gloves for burka

Taxes – divided into five categories: social behavior, education, agriculture, public order, services – now make up about half of the $ 56 million budget per month of ISIS (last summer budget was 80 million), according to a report of the agency IHS Inc. in consulting and Defence analysis. Their data are collected through interviews, social media, ISIS documents and the Iraqi government.

Today vehicles and trucks have to pay between 600 and 700 US dollars at the ISIS check points, twice compared to last summer. In addition to taxes on non-Muslims, the Islamic State also requires that non-Sunni Muslims, former members of the police force and former officials of the Syrian and Iraqi governments buy a certificate of “repentance” once a month.

Sharia Police in Germany
Sharia Police in Germany

“The social taxes are those collected more strongly,” says to “Corriere della Sera” Carlino Ludovico, IHS researcher. Women are particularly affected by constraints on clothing, but men are fined twice if found in possession of a packet of cigarettes ($ 46, perhaps because they are more likely to commit the crime?), while all have to shell out $ 50 and suffer 50 lashes if caught drinking alcohol.

Source: Qui Finanza

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