Ministry of Finance (Ukraine)

Overview

The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство фінансів України) is the ministry of the Government of Ukraine charged with developing and implementing national financial and budget policies, and with defining national policies in customs and taxation. The ministry is responsible for ensuring that the state has enough resources to perform its functions and that financial policies promote economic growth. As of 2026Serhiy Marchenko is the Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Role

Specific responsibilities of the ministry include:

regulating customs fees and tax collection; regulating administration of Ukraine's single social insurance tax; defining state policy for combating violations of tax and customs law; defining state policy for combating proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism; cooperating with the inter-governmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and other anti–money laundering international organisations; regulating issues related to financial control of public funds; monitoring compliance with accounting standards; administering lotteries; regulating securities issuances and certain precious metals and gemstone transactions; analysing and forecasting public revenue, drafting mid-term Budget Declarations and annual Budget Laws; coordinating implementation of the State Budget; setting guidelines for budget planning; enhancing effectiveness of public financial management; managing public and state-guaranteed debt; regulating intergovernmental fiscal relations; approving within-country regional borrowing and provision of debt guarantees by local governments; informing the general public about economic and fiscal policies of the state, as well as the results of implementing the state's budget; assessing financial viability of regional development projects; development and management of state-owned banks; defining and implementing national policy on development of financial services and non-bank financial institutions (e.g. insurers); cooperating with the International Monetary Fund and other international financial organisations.

Ministry agencies

There are several central executive agencies in Ukraine which report to the Cabinet of Ministers through the Minister of Finance. These include:

State Treasury Service; State Tax Service; State Customs Service; State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine; State Audit Service of Ukraine. Note: Prior to 10 September 2014, the list of executive agencies under the Ministry of Finance also included the State Assay Service. This agency was closed down as part of the Government's initiative to streamline the structure of executive agencies. Functions in assay control were split between the Ministry of Finance (implementing state assay control policy) and the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection (protecting the rights of consumers of precious metals and gems).

Supporting establishments

State gemological center of Ukraine State repository of precious metals and stones Museum of decorative and precious stones Kyiv Offset Factory Main planning and service center of computer financial technologies Administration in exploitation of assets complex Recreation site Koncha-Zaspa Administration Office in International Financial Cooperation projects Assay Control State Offices (Dnipro, Donetsk, Western, Crimean, Southern, Eastern, Central) Scientific-researching financial institute The Ukrainian Startup Fund was established in 2018 by the Cabinet of Ministers on the initiative of the Minister of Finance of Ukraine. From 2023, it has been managed by the Ministry of Digital Transformation.

See also

National Bank of Ukraine

External links

Media related to Ministry of Finance (Ukraine) at Wikimedia Commons

Official Website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergencies MinFin Ukraine - Official Twitter account of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine