Ministry of Finance (Poland)

Poland's Ministry of Finance (Polish: Ministerstwo Finansów), headed by the Minister of Finance (Minister Finansów), is part of the government of Poland. Among its powers and responsibilities it drafts the national budget, deals with taxes, financing of the local self-governments and issues related to public debt.

In the area of taxation, the ministry oversees a system of local and regional tax offices. An ordinary tax office is called urząd skarbowy (abbr. US; literally "treasury office"), while a higher-level office is called izba skarbowa ("treasury chamber"). There are approximately 400 of the former throughout the country, and 16 of the latter, one in each voivodeship (province). In each voivodeship there is also one "tax inspection office" (urząd kontroli skarbowej).

The Ministry of Finance exists alongside the Ministry of the Treasury, which is responsible mainly for the management of nationally-owned assets, and the Ministry of the Economy.

List of ministers

Below is a list of Finance Ministers of Poland.

Second Republic

• Jan Kanty Steczkowski 1918
• Medard Downarowicz 1918
• Władysław Byrka 1918–1919
• Józef Englich 1919
• Stanisław Karpiński 1919
• Leon Biliński 1919
• Władysław Grabski 1919–1920
• Jan Kanty Steczkowski 1920–1921
• Bolesław Markowski 1921
• Jerzy Michalski 1921–1922
• Zygmunt Jastrzębski 1922–1923
• Bolesław Markowski 1923
• Władysław Grabski 1923
• Hubert Linde 1923
• Władysław Kucharski 1923
• Władysław Grabski 1923–1925
• Jerzy Zdziechowski 1925–1926
• Gabriel Czechowicz 1926
• Czesław Klarner 1926
• Gabriel Czechowicz 1926–1929
• Ignacy Matuszewski 1929–1931
• Jan Piłsudski 1931–1932
• Władysław Marian Zawadzki 1932–1935
• Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski 1935–1939

• Edward Werner (c. 1934, vice-Minister of Finance)
• Henryk Leon Strasburger (1939–1942, Polish government in exile)

People's Republic of Poland (1944–1989)

• Andrzej Wróblewski (27 September 1988 – 30 June 1989)

Third Republic (since 1989)

• Leszek Balcerowicz (12 September 1989 – 5 December 1991)
• Karol Lutkowski (23 December 1991 – 26 February 1992)
• Andrzej Olechowski (26 February 1992 – 5 June 1992)
• Jerzy Osiatyński (11 July 1992 – 26 October 1993)
• Marek Borowski (26 October 1993 – 8 February 1994)
• Grzegorz Kołodko (28 April 1994 – 4 February 1997)
• Marek Belka (4 February 1997 – 17 October 1997)
• Leszek Balcerowicz (31 October 1997 – 8 June 2000)
• Jarosław Bauc (8 June 2000 – 28 August 2001)
• Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner (28 August 2001 – 19 October 2001)
• Marek Belka (19 October 2001 – 6 July 2002)
• Grzegorz Kołodko (6 July 2002 – 16 June 2003)
• Andrzej Raczko (16 June 2003 – 21 July 2004)
• Mirosław Gronicki (21 July 2004 – 31 October 2005)
• Teresa Lubińska (31 October 2005 – 7 January 2006)
• Zyta Gilowska (7 January 2006 – 24 June 2006)
• Paweł Wojciechowski (24 June 2006 – 10 July 2006)
• Stanisław Kluza (14 July 2006 - 22 September 2006)
• Zyta Gilowska (22 September 2006 - 7 September 2007)
• Jarosław Kaczyński (7 September 2007 - 10 September 2007)
• Zyta Gilowska (10 September 2007 - 16 November 2007)
• Jan Vincent-Rostowski (16 November 2007 – Present)

External links

• Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Poland