The Ruling on Deducting the Costs of Distributing Zakah and Transporting It from the Zakah

Question:
The questioner says: A person has a large amount of zakah. Do the costs of distributing the zakah and the costs of transporting it count as part of the zakah? A person has a large amount of zakah, specifically zakah on wealth. Do the costs of distributing the zakah and the costs of transporting it count as part of the zakah?

Answer:
If the ruler is the one who collects the zakah and sends workers, giving them from it, Allah has made the share of those who work on it part of the eight categories of expenditure. This is if it is the ruler. But for an ordinary person who has no authority, and it is his personal zakah, no, he does not pay the costs from it. Because it is obligatory for him to deliver it to the poor person, and he bears the cost of delivering it to the poor person. Yes.