The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Finance (

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

: Finansdepartementet) is a

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established in 1814. The ministry is responsible for state

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

, including the state budget,

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

and

economic policy The economy of governments covers the systems for setting levels of taxation, government budgets, the money supply and interest rates as well as the labour market, national ownership, and many other areas of government interventions into the e ...

in Norway. It is led by

Trygve Slagsvold Vedum Trygve Magnus Slagsvold Vedum (born 1 December 1978) is a Norwegian politician who has served as Minister of Finance (Norway), Minister of Finance since 2021. A member of the Centre Party (Norway), Centre Party, which he has led since 2014, he has ...

( Centre Party). The department must report to the

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Organization

The ministry is divided into the following sections: * Political staff * Information Unit * Asset Management Department * Budget Department * Financial Markets Department * Tax Law Department * Tax Policy Department * Economic Policy Department * Department of Administrative Affairs

Subsidiaries

The following

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are subordinate to the ministry: * Pension Fund Global * National Insurance Scheme Fund * Bank of Norway *

Norwegian Customs and Excise Authorities Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

* Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority *

Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

Norwegian National Collection Agency The Norwegian National Collection Agency ( no, Statens Innkrevingssentral) is a Norwegian government agency responsible for the collection of all fines issued by the police as well as debt collection from defaulted government taxes or other gov ...

Norwegian Tax Administration The Norwegian Tax Administration ( no, Skatteetaten) is a government agency responsible for resident registration (''National Population Register'') and tax collection in Norway. The agency is subordinate to the Ministry of Finance and is based a ...

Statistics Norway Statistics Norway ( no, Statistisk sentralbyrå, abbreviated to ''SSB'') is the Norwegian statistics bureau. It was established in 1876. Relying on a staff of about 1,000, Statistics Norway publish about 1,000 new statistical releases every yea ...

The ministry also owns 19.1% of the

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References

External links

Official web site
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Finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

Finance in Norway Finance ministries Public finance of Norway Ministries established in 1814 1814 establishments in Norway

Organization

Subsidiaries

See also

References

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