Ministry of Finance (Taiwan)

Overview

The Ministry of Finance (MOF; Chinese: 財政部; pinyin: Cáizhèngbù; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Châi-chèng-pō͘) is the ministry of the Republic of China (Taiwan) responsible for government revenue, taxation, treasury, government land properties, customs in Taiwan. The current minister is Chuang Tsui-yun. The Ministry of Finance also manages the administration of government land, tobacco and alcohol, deposit insurance for banking customers and export-import banking services. The Emblem of the Ministry of Finance depicts a spade money - an early type of coinage in ancient China. The Western Han dynasty's money spade is used, imprinted with the archaic variation of the word 財.

Internal structure

The internal structure of the agency comprises:

Department of General Affairs Department of International Fiscal Affairs Department for the Promotion of Private Participation Department of Secretarial Department of Personnel Department of Government Ethics Department of Accounting Department of Statistics Department of Legal Affairs

Administrative agencies

The Ministry of Finance has a number of subordinate agencies reporting to it. They are:

National Treasury Administration Taxation Administration National Property Administration Customs Administration National Taxation Bureau of Taipei National Taxation Bureau of Kaohsiung National Taxation Bureau of the Northern Area National Taxation Bureau of the Central Area National Taxation Bureau of the Southern Area Fiscal Information Agency Training Institute

Local agencies under supervision

The following agencies report to the Ministry of Finance of the central government:

Bureau of Finance, Taipei Municipal Government Bureau of Finance, Kaohsiung Municipal Government

Government corporations

These state-owned corporations report to the Ministry of Finance:

Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation Taiwan Financial Holdings Group, which includes Bank of Taiwan Land Bank of Taiwan Export–Import Bank of the Republic of China Printing Plant, Ministry of Finance

List of ministers of finance

The following is a list of finance ministers of the Republic of China. Non-partisan/ unknown Kuomintang (Nationalist) Democratic Progressive Party Non-partisan Solidarity Union

Nationalist government during 1927–1947

Sun Fo (孫科) 1927-1928 T. V. Soong (宋子文) 1928–1933 H. H. Kung (孔祥熙) 1933–1944

Access

The MOF building is accessible from Jingmei Station of the Taipei Metro on the Green Line.

See also

Economy of Taiwan List of banks in Taiwan

Notes and references

Ministry of Finance, 歷任部長基本資料, retrieved 2005-03-02.