Ministry of Finance

財政部 Cáizhèngbù (Mandarin) Chhòi-chṳn Phu (Hakka)
Emblem of the Ministry of Finance
Seal of the Ministry of Finance (財政部印)
Agency overview
Formed	March 1912
Jurisdiction	Taiwan
Headquarters	Wenshan, Taipei
Minister responsible	Chuang Tsui-yun
Agency executives	Dai Longhui, Secretary-General Lee Ching-hua, Undersecretary Ruan Ching-hua, Undersecretary
Website	www.mof.gov.tw

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 Su Jain-rong.

The Ministry of Finance also manages the administration of government land, tobacco and alcohol, deposit insurance for banking customers and export-import banking services.^[1]

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.

The internal structure of the agency is comprised:^[2]

• 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

The Ministry of Finance has a number of subordinate agencies reporting to it. They are:^[1]

• 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

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

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

These state-owned corporations report to the Ministry of Finance:^[3]

• 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

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

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

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

• Economy of Taiwan
• List of banks in Taiwan

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

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