Islamic State
Diwan Bayt al-Mal/Money Commission
Final budget for the month of Safr 1438 AH
Wilaya/Diwan: Wilayat Halab
Date: 29 Muharram 1438 AH corresponding to 30 October 2016 CE
| No. | Classification | Heading | Number | Sum ($)/Quantity | Total ($) | Notes |
| 1 | Operatives [1-13] | Soldiers | 1106 | 40.00 | 44,240 | |
| 2 | Soldiers in the centres | 140 | 40.00 | 5,600 | ||
| 3 | Soldiers’ wives | 1339 | 40.00 | 53,560 | ||
| 4 | Soldiers’ children | 2642 | 28.00 | 73,976 | ||
| 5 | Support for soldiers’ dependent parents | 422 | 40.00 | 16,880 | ||
| 6 | Support for soldiers’ other dependents | 97 | 24.00 | 2,328 | ||
| 7 | Wives in the land of kufr | 0 | 40.00 | 0 | ||
| 8 | Children in the land of kufr | 0 | 28.00 | 0 | ||
| 9 | Grant for judges | 4 | 160.00 | 640 | ||
| 10 | Supporters | 0 | 32.00 | 0 | ||
| 11 | Wives of supporters | 0 | 32.00 | 0 | ||
| 12 | Children of supporters | 0 | 24.00 | 0 | ||
| 13 | Delayed sponsorships | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||
| 14 | Martyrs [14-18] | Martyrs | 3834 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| 15 | Martyrs’ wives | 1833 | 48.00 | 87,984 | ||
| 16 | Martyrs’ children | 3668 | 28.00 | 102,704 | ||
| 17 | Support for martyrs’ dependent parents | 518 | 40.00 | 20,720 | ||
| 18 | Support for martyrs’ other dependents | 86 | 24.00 | 2,064 | ||
| 19 | Prisoners [19-23] | Prisoners’ wives | 50 | 48.00 | 2400 | |
| 20 | Prisoners | 50 | 0.00 | 0 | ||
| 21 | Prisoners’ children | 126 | 28.00 | 3,528 | ||
| 22 | Support for prisoners’ dependent parents | 0 | 40.00 | 0 | ||
| 23 | Support for other dependents of prisoners | 0 | 24.00 | 0 | ||
| 24 | Missing members [24-28] | Wives of missing persons | 29 | 40.00 | 1160 | |
| 25 | Missing members | 26 | 0.00 | 0 | ||
| 26 | Missing members’ children | 51 | 28.00 | 1428 | ||
| 27 | Support for missing members’ dependent parents | 0 | 40.00 | 0 | ||
| 28 | Support for missing members’ other dependents | 0 | 24.00 | 0 | ||
| 29 | Handicapped members [29-33] | Handicapped members | 0 | 160.00 | 0 | |
| 30 | Handicapped members’ wives | 0 | 40.00 | 0 | ||
| 31 | Handicapped members’ children | 0 | 28.00 | 0 | ||
| 32 | Support for handicapped members’ dependent parents | 0 | 40.00 | 0 | ||
| 33 | Support for handicapped members’ other dependents | 0 | 24.00 | 0 | ||
| 34 | Various [34-43] | Feeding the soldiers | 1106 | 20.00 | 22,120 | |
| 35 | Funds for condolences of the martyr | 258 | 400.00 | 103,200 | ||
| 36 | Rent fees | 1 | 15,000.00 | 15,000 | ||
| 37 | Feeding the prisoners | 1050 | 20.00 | 21,000 | ||
| 38 | Marrying the virgin | 8 | 640.00 | 5120 | ||
| 39 | Marrying a martyr’s widow | 3 | 800.00 | 2400 | ||
| 40 | Furnishing houses | 11 | 240.00 | 2640 | ||
| 41 | Employees’ salaries | 1 | 79,440.00 | 79,440 | ||
| 42 | Da‘wa and Mosques | 1 | 11,200.00 | 11,200 | ||
| 43 | Feeding the supporters | 0 | 20.00 | 0 | ||
| 44 | Fuel and maintenance [44-53] | Gasoline cars | 46 | 144.00 | 9373.58 | |
| 45 | Diesel cars | 51 | 360.00 | 8660.38 | ||
| 46 | Diesel for heavy equipment | 37 | 600.00 | 10,471.70 | ||
| 47 | Motorbikes of Dawla | 239 | 24.00 | 8116.98 | ||
| 48 | Motorbikes of employees | 0 | 24.00 | 0 | ||
| 49 | Maintaining and repairing the cars | 120 | 75.00 | 9000 | ||
| 50 | Maintaining heavy equipment | 37 | 200.00 | 7400 | ||
| 51 | Electrical generators | 12 | 408.00 | 2309.43 | Referral of a detailed inventory | |
| 52 | Gasoline of the Hisba cars | 6 | 720.00 | 6113.21 | ||
| 53 | Diesel of the Hisba cars | 17 | 720.00 | 5773.58 | ||
| 54 | Emergency funds | 1 | 50,000.00 | 50,000 | Designated for the Delegated Committee |
Note: 20% has been deducted from the budget items except: food, rental fees, maintenance and repair of cars, employees’ salaries.
Total ($): 798,550.87
Exchange rate [Syrian pounds to dollar]: 530
Price of gasoline [per litre in Syrian pounds]: 750
Price of diesel [per litre in Syrian pounds]: 250
Islamic State
Diwan Bayt al-Mal
Money commission- The amir
NB: This is an important document that should be compared with the Money Commission’s letter from July 2016 establishing salary schemes and grants. It would appear that by the time of the beginning of Hijra year 1438 AH (October 2016 CE), a decision had been made to cut most expenses by 20%, including fighters’ basic salaries (reduced from $50 to $40), additions to salaries for each wife of a fighter (reduced from $50 to $40), additions to salaries for each child of a fighter (reduced from $35 to $28), and marriage grants (reduced from $800 to $640 for marrying a virgin, and from $1000 to $800 for marrying a martyr’s widow).
The document also establishes that the widely reported claim in early 2016 about a 50% reduction in all salaries, based on a purported financial department document published by the news site Aleppo 24 and archived and translated in my original archive of Islamic State documents (Specimen 12Q), cannot actually have been implemented at that time. Either that purported document is not authentic (viewed in this light, there do appear to be some oddities about the formatting and stamping of the document, though another document sourced to Aleppo 24 is authentic), or the document is real but the supposed decision just was not implemented, in contrast with this 20% reduction by late 2016/early 2017 in most expenses that is now well documented from authentic documents and records I have seen.
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