The Ministry of Finance (MOF; ) is the ministry of the Republic of China (

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

) responsible for government revenue,

taxation A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, o ...

, treasury, government land properties, customs in Taiwan. The current minister is

Su Jain-rong Su Jain-rong (; born 12 November 1961) is a Taiwanese politician. Education Su obtained his master's degree in economics from National Chung Hsing University and doctoral degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University in the United Sta ...

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

Structure

ROC-MOF National Property Administration 1st office 20100618

ROC-MOF Fiscal Information Agency 20131120

Land Bank of Taiwan headquarters 20100618

Internal Structure

The internal structure of the agency is comprised: *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 The National Treasury Administration (NTA; ) is the agency of the Ministry of Finance of Taiwan (ROC) in charge of relevant matters in the revenues, expenditures and management of the Treasury as well as responsible for the management of governme ...

* Taxation Administration * National Property Administration *

Customs Administration The Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance (CA; ) is the agency of the Ministry of Finance of Taiwan (ROC) dealing with customs policies and regulations in Taiwan. Republic of China is not a Member of World Customs Organization but ROC h ...

* National Taxation Bureau of Taipei * National Taxation Bureau of Kaohsiung * National Taxation Bureau of the Northern Area *

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* National Taxation Bureau of the Southern Area *

Fiscal Information Agency The Fiscal Information Agency (FIA; ) is an agency of the Ministry of Finance of the Taiwan (ROC). History FIA was originally established as Financial and Taxation Data Processing and Examination Center in 1968. It was later integrated to the M ...

* Training Institute

Local Agencies under supervision

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

Government corporations

These state-owned corporations report to the Ministry of Finance: * Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation *

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* Land Bank of Taiwan * Export–Import Bank of the Republic of China

List of Ministers of Finance

The following is a list of

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s of the Republic of China.

Nationalist government during 1927–1947

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(孫科) 1927-1928 *

T. V. Soong Soong Tse-vung, more commonly romanized as Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen (; 4 December 1894 – 25 April 1971), was a prominent businessman and politician in the early 20th-century Republic of China, who served as Premier. His father was Char ...

(宋子文) 1928–1933 * H. H. Kung (孔祥熙) 1933–1944

Constitutional government since 1948

Access

The MOF building is accessible from Jingmei Station of the

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on the Green Line.

Notes and references

* Ministry of Finance
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Finance in Taiwan