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When calculating my Khums, can I offset credit card balances that relate to current year and prior year expenses from my current year savings?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Every legible expenses which you have already made, can be calculated and minus  from your income for the calculation of Khums. 

Wassalam.
In a year I paid $200 Khums on the savings for the year of $1,000. Will I need to pay Khums again in the subsequent year if I only have a portion of this $800 left with me?
Seyed Ali Musawi

Salaam Allaikum,

Once you have paid the khums on an amount of money, that money will be exempt from any further khums.
Do I owe Khums if I do not work continuously but rather work on and off throughout the year, mostly not working but sometimes taking small work here and there?
Sayyed Muhammad Husaini Ragheb

Salaam
According to Sayyid Sistani(may Allah lengthen his life) if one doesn't have a fixed job and a regular salary, he must take into account whatever he acquires for a year and if it doesn't get spent in his year's expenses, he should give one-fifth of it as Khums. So it's going to be a distinct "Khumsi Year" for each belonging, possession or finance you may get.

The Persian reference is :
https://www.sistani.org/persian/book/25103/4040/

Q no: 2301
Why khums cannot be given to non-saadat when the Quranic verse refers to orphan, poor, needy and wayfarer which can be from any community especially the wayfarer?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

1. We abide to the meanings of Quranic verses and rules of Islam as explained by the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and his Holy Progeny Ahlul Bayt (AS), and not our own thinking or our superficial linguistic understanding which is away from what the Prophet and Ahlul Bayt have explained.

2. Khums consist of two equal parts; Sahm Imam, and Sahm Sadat. Sahm Sadat is the right of needy Sadat who ae from the family tree of the Prophet (SAWA). Allah (ST) knows that Ahlul Bayt (AS) and their families will face big difficulties from their enemies, that is why, Sahm Sadat has been ordained for the needy Sadat.

3. Sahm Imam (AS) is the right of the Imam (AS) and it is received either by him or by his deputies like the Marja' of Taqleed or his deputies now a days. Sahm Imam is used generally in serving the general poor and needy and religious, educational and social services.

Wassalam