How is zakat collected?

Answer 1

The AMOUNT is fixed at one-fortieth (i.e., 2.5%) of all one owns, each year. The USES vary. While the general understanding is that's it's charity to support the poor, some of the applications the government puts it to (remember, Islam has no notion of the church-state separation so popular in the West) are very far from what we would consider charity. For example it can be used to buy weapons or to bribe officials.

Answer 2

Do you mean what form Zakat can be given in? Zakat basically means giving. You can give it in the form of money, clothes, even food. Most Muslims prefer to do it in the form of money, because every year, a Muslim is supposed to give 2.5% of their income to charity, so if every Muslim in the world does this, we can help 3rd world countries, and improve the state of our world.

Answer 3

Zakat can be collected in something similar to a tax, but Muslims from a non-Islam country usually either give their Zakat to developing countries or send it to the government of an Islam country