{"id":50975,"date":"2019-04-02T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=50975"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:01:10","slug":"benami-act-commissioners-appointed-under-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/benami-act-commissioners-appointed-under-the-rules.html","title":{"rendered":"Benami Act: Commissioners appointed under the rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has divided the country into three zones and appointed a commissioner, deputy commissioner and assistant commissioner for each zone to take action against <em>benami<\/em> properties.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rules-approved-benami-act-becomes-operational.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benami Act became operational <\/a>last month after its rules were approved last month. The law allows tax officials to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-empowered-to-appoint-commissioner-for-attachment-of-benami-properties.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confiscate property, expensive vehicles and bank accounts<\/a> registered in the name of fictitious individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities had to appoint commissioners and deputy commissioners under the Benami Act Rules to take action against <em>benami<\/em> properties.<\/p>\n<p>The country has been divided into three zones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zone 1 covers Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa<\/li>\n<li>Zone 2 covers Punjab<\/li>\n<li>Zone 3 covers Sindh and Balochistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One commissioner, deputy commissioner, and assistant commissioner inland revenue have been appointed for each zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has divided the country into three zones and appointed a commissioner, deputy commissioner and assistant commissioner for each zone to take action against benami properties. The Benami Act became operational last month after its rules were approved last month. The law allows tax officials to confiscate property, expensive vehicles and bank accounts registered in the name of fictitious individuals. The authorities had to appoint commissioners and deputy commissioners under the Benami Act Rules to take action against benami properties. The country has been divided into three zones: Zone 1 covers Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Zone 2 covers Punjab Zone 3 covers Sindh and Balochistan One commissioner, deputy commissioner, and assistant commissioner inland revenue have been appointed for each zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":28406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11158],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-benami-act-commissioners-appointed-under-the-rules"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benami Act: Commissioners appointed under the rules - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has divided the country into three zones and appointed a commissioner, deputy commissioner and assistant\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/benami-act-commissioners-appointed-under-the-rules.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benami Act: Commissioners appointed under the rules - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has divided the country into three zones and appointed a commissioner, deputy commissioner and assistant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/benami-act-commissioners-appointed-under-the-rules.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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