Ministry of Finance (Republic of China)
Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國財政部) is a cabinet level executive yuan agency responsible for government revenue, taxation, treasury, government land properties, customs throughout the Free Area of the Republic of China. The current minister is Lee Sush-Der[1].
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]
Structure
Internal Structure
The internal structure of the agency is comprised:[2]
- Secretariat
- Counsellors
- Superintendent
- Department of Customs Administration
- Department of General Affairs
- Department of Personnel
- Department of Accounting
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Civil Service Ethics
- Legal Affairs Committee
- Petitions and Appeals Committee
Administrative Agencies
The Ministry of Finance has a number of subordinate agencies reporting to it. They are:[1]
- National Treasury Agency
- Taxation Agency
- Bureau of National Properties
- Taipei National Tax Administration
- Kaohsiung National Tax Administration
- National Tax Administration of Central Taiwan Province
- National Tax Administration of Northern Taiwan Province
- National Tax Administration of Southern Taiwan Province
- Directorate General of Customs
- Financial Data Center
- Taxation and Tariff Committee
- Training Institute
- Taipei Regional Disbursing Office
- Taipei Regional Disbursing Office
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
Subordinate agencies
These subordinate agencies report to the Ministry of Finance:[3]
- Taiwan Tobacco & Wine Board
- Bank of Taiwan
- Central Deposit Insurance Corp.
- The Export-Import Bank of The Republic of China
List of Ministers of Finance
The following is a list of finance ministers of the Republic of China.
Nationalist government during 1928–1947
T. V. Soong
1948–1978
Appointed by Chiang Kai-shek:
- Wang Yun-wu (王雲五) appointed May 31, 1948
- Hsu Kan (徐堪) appointed November 11, 1948
- Liu Kung-yun (劉攻芸) appointed March 21, 1949
- Hsu Kan (徐堪) appointed June 12, 1949
- Kuan Chi-yu (關吉玉) appointed October 3, 1949
- Yen Chia-kan (嚴家淦) appointed March 12, 1950
- P. Y. Shu (徐柏園) appointed May 27, 1954
- Yan Chia-kan (嚴家淦) appointed March 19, 1958
- Chen Ching-yu (陳慶瑜) appointed December 14, 1963
- Yu Kuo-hwa (俞國華) appointed November 29, 1967
- Kwoh-Ting Li (李國鼎) appointed June 25, 1969, the "Father of Taiwan's Economic Miracle"
Appointed by Yen Chia-kan:
- Fei Hwa (費驊) appointed June 9, 1976
1978–1988
Appointed by Chiang Ching-kuo:
- Chang Chi-cheng (張繼正) appointed May 29, 1978
- Hsu Li-teh (徐立德) appointed November 25, 1981
- Lu Reng-kong (陸潤康) appointed May 28, 1984
- Robert Chien (錢純) appointed August 21, 1985
1988–2000
Appointed by Lee Teng-hui:
- Shirley Kuo (郭婉容) appointed July 22, 1988
- Wang Chien-shien (王建煊) appointed June 1, 1990
- Bai Pei-ying (白培英) appointed October 23, 1992
- Lin Chen-kuo (林振國) appointed February 27, 1993
- Paul Chiu (邱正雄) appointed June 10, 1996
2000–present
Appointed by Chen Shui-bian:
- Shea Jia-dong (許嘉棟) appointed May 20, 2000
- Ching-Chang Yen (顏慶章) promoted October 6, 2000 from deputy finance minister (since 1996)
- Lee Yung-san (李庸三) appointed February 1, 2002
- Lin Chuan (林全) appointed December 2, 2002
- Joseph Lyu (呂桔誠) appointed January 25, 2006
- Ho Chih-Chin (何志欽) appointed July 4, 2006
References
- Ministry of Finance, 歷任部長基本資料, retrieved 2005-03-02.
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