Credit card additional charge : 3 % additional charge by merchants

Fatawa Question

Assalamualikum Dr., Actually I'm working in Saudi Arabia. When paying by (American express, Visa and Master cards) bank charges from customer 3 % additionally which is collected as a bank commission. For example : I'm buying goods for 1000 SAR. I'm going to pay by credit card. They charge 30 SAR more as a bank commission, so total 1030 SAR. My question is the additional charge interest ? Or is it permissible to be collected ? Jazakhallahu khairah

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Publication Date

2010-01-30

Main Subjects

Economics & Business Administration
Financial and Accounting Sciences
Islamic Studies

Topics

No. of Pages

1

Data Type

Fatawa

Language

English

Record ID

BIM-728420

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