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.
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Structure
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.