Ministry of Finance (Taiwan)

{{Short description|Government ministry of the Republic of China}}

{{Infobox government agency

| agency_name = Ministry of Finance

| nativename =

| nativename_a = 財政部

| nativename_r = Cáizhèngbù (Mandarin)
Chhòi-chṳn Phu (Hakka)

| logo = 財政部印 (中華民國).svg

| logo_width = 150px

| logo_caption = Seal of the Ministry of Finance{{br}}(財政部印)

| seal = ROC Ministry of Finance Seal.svg

| seal_width = 150px

| seal_caption = Emblem of the Ministry of Finance

| formed = March 1912

| preceding1 =

| preceding2 =

| dissolved =

| superseding =

| jurisdiction = Taiwan

| headquarters = Wenshan, Taipei

| employees =

| budget =

| minister1_name = Chuang Tsui-yun

| minister1_pfo =

| minister2_name =

| minister2_pfo =

| minister3_name =

| minister3_pfo =

| chief1_name = Dai Longhui

| chief1_position = Secretary-General

| chief2_name = Lee Ching-hua

| chief2_position = Undersecretary

| chief3_name = Ruan Ching-hua

| chief3_position = Undersecretary

| parent_agency =

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| website = {{Official URL}}

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}}

The Ministry of Finance (MOF; {{zh|t=財政部|p=Cáizhèngbù|poj=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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mof.gov.tw/engweb/ct.asp?xItem=10815&CtNode=673&mp=2 |title=Ministry of Finance, R.O.C. Organization & Functions - Organization & Functions |access-date=2018-12-26 |archive-date=2011-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021024525/http://www.mof.gov.tw/engWeb/ct.asp?xItem=10815&CtNode=673&mp=2 |url-status=dead }}

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.

Structure

=Internal structure=

The internal structure of the agency is comprised:https://www.mof.gov.tw/engweb/np.asp?ctNode=673&CtUnit=97&BaseDSD=7 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}

  • 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=

=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:{{cite web |url=https://www.mof.gov.tw/engweb/ct.asp?xItem=10827&CtNode=697&mp=2 |title=Ministry of Finance, R.O.C - MOF Subordinate Agencies - MOF Subordinate Agencies |website=www.mof.gov.tw |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070116131057/http://www.mof.gov.tw/engWeb/ct.asp?xItem=10827&CtNode=697&mp=2 |archive-date=2007-01-16}}

List of ministers of finance

File:莊翠雲部長肖像.jpg, the incumbent Minister of Finance]]

The following is a list of finance ministers of the Republic of China.

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=Nationalist government during 1927–1947=

=Constitutional government since 1948=

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! №

! width="180"|Name

! colspan=2 width="180"|Term of office

! Days

! width="100"|Political party

! width="120"|Cabinet

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! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 1

| align=center|Wang Yun-wu (王雲五)

| 1 June 1948

15 November 1948{{age in days|1948|6|1|1948|11|15}}

| Independent

| Weng Wenhao

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 2

| align=center|Hsu Kan (徐堪)

| 15 November 1948

30 March 1949{{age in days|1948|11|15|1949|3|30}}

| Kuomintang

| Weng Wenhao
Sun Fo
He Yingqin

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 3

| align=center|Liu Kung-yun (劉攻芸)

| 30 March 1949

25 June 1949{{age in days|1949|3|30|1949|6|25}}

| Kuomintang

| He Yingqin
Yan Xishan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 4

| align=center|Hsu Kan (徐堪)

| 25 June 1949

4 October 1949{{age in days|1949|6|25|1949|10|4}}

| Kuomintang

| Yan Xishan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 5

| align=center|Kuan Chi-yu (關吉玉)

| 4 October 1949

16 March 1950{{age in days|1949|10|4|1950|3|16}}

| Kuomintang

| Yan Xishan
Chen Cheng I

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 6

| align=center|Yen Chia-kan (嚴家淦)

| 16 March 1950

1 June 1954{{age in days|1950|3|16|1954|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Chen Cheng I

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 7

| align=center|P. Y. Shu (徐柏園)

| 1 June 1954

26 March 1958{{age in days|1954|6|1|1958|3|26}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Hung-Chun

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 8

| align=center|Yen Chia-kan (嚴家淦)

| 26 March 1958

16 December 1963{{age in days|1958|3|26|1963|12|16}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Hung-Chun
Chen Cheng II

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 9

| align=center|Chen Ching-yu (陳慶瑜)

| 16 December 1963

4 December 1967{{age in days|1963|12|16|1967|12|4}}

| Kuomintang

| Yen Chia-kan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 10

| align=center|Yu Kuo-hwa (俞國華)

| 4 December 1967

4 July 1969{{age in days|1967|12|4|1969|7|4}}

| Kuomintang

| Yen Chia-kan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 11

| align=center|Kwoh-Ting Li (李國鼎)

| 4 July 1969

11 June 1976{{age in days|1969|7|4|1976|6|11}}

| Kuomintang

| Yen Chia-kan
Chiang Ching-kuo

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 12

| align=center|Fei Hwa (費驊)

| 11 June 1976

1 June 1978{{age in days|1976|6|11|1978|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Chiang Ching-kuo

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 13

| align=center|Chang Chi-cheng (張繼正)

| 1 June 1978

1 December 1981{{age in days|1978|6|1|1981|12|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Sun Yun-suan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 14

| align=center|Hsu Li-teh (徐立德)

| 1 December 1981

1 June 1984{{age in days|1981|12|1|1984|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Sun Yun-suan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 15

| align=center|Lu Reng-kong (陸潤康)

| 1 June 1984

29 August 1985{{age in days|1984|6|1|1985|8|29}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Kuo-hua

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 16

| align=center|Robert Chien (錢純)

| 29 August 1985

22 July 1988{{age in days|1985|8|29|1988|7|22}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Kuo-hua

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 17

| align=center|Shirley Kuo (郭婉容)

| 22 July 1988

1 June 1990{{age in days|1988|7|22|1990|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Kuo-hua
Lee Huan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 18

| align=center|Wang Chien-shien (王建煊)

| 1 June 1990

23 October 1992{{age in days|1990|6|1|1992|10|23}}

| Kuomintang

| Hau Pei-tsun

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 19

| align=center|Bai Pei-ying (白培英)

| 23 October 1992

27 February 1993{{age in days|1992|10|23|1993|2|27}}

| Kuomintang

| Hau Pei-tsun

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 20

| align=center|Lin Chen-kuo (林振國)

| 27 February 1993

10 June 1996{{age in days|1993|2|27|1996|6|10}}

|

| Lien Chan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 21

| align=center|Paul Chiu (邱正雄)

| 10 June 1996

20 May 2000{{age in days|1996|6|10|2000|5|20}}

| Kuomintang

| Lien Chan
Vincent Siew

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 22

| align=center|Shea Jia-dong (許嘉棟)

| 20 May 2000

6 October 2000{{age in days|2000|5|20|2000|10|6}}

|

| Tang Fei

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 23

| align=center|Yen Ching-chang (顏慶章)

| 6 October 2000

1 February 2002{{age in days|2000|10|6|2002|2|1}}

|

| Chang Chun-hsiung I

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 24

| align=center|Lee Yung-san (李庸三)

| 1 February 2002

2 December 2002{{age in days|2002|2|1|2002|12|2}}

|

| Yu Shyi-kun

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 25

| align=center|Lin Chuan (林全)

| 2 December 2002

25 January 2006{{age in days|2002|12|2|2006|1|25}}

| Independent

| Yu Shyi-kun
Frank Hsieh

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 26

| align=center|Joseph Lyu (呂桔誠)

| 25 January 2006

4 July 2006{{age in days|2006|1|25|2006|7|4}}

|

| Su Tseng-chang I

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 27

| align=center|Ho Chih-chin (何志欽)

| 4 July 2006

14 March 2008{{age in days|2006|7|4|2008|3|14}}

|

| Su Tseng-chang I
Chang Chun-hsiung II

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | —

| align=center|Lee Ruey-tsang (李瑞倉)

| 14 March 2008

20 May 2008{{age in days|2008|3|14|2008|5|20}}

|

| Chang Chun-hsiung II

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 28

| align=center|Lee Sush-der (李述德)

| 20 May 2008

6 February 2012{{age in days|2008|5|20|2012|2|6}}

| Kuomintang

| Liu Chao-shiuan
Wu Den-yih

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan Solidarity Union}}; color:white;" | 29

| align=center|Christina Liu (劉憶如)

| 6 February 2012

31 May 2012{{age in days|2012|2|6|2012|5|31}}

| Non-partisan Solidarity Union

| Sean Chen

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | —

| align=center|Tseng Ming-chung (曾銘宗)

| 31 May 2012

4 June 2012{{age in days|2012|5|31|2012|6|4}}

| Kuomintang

| Sean Chen

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 30

| align=center|Chang Sheng-ford (張盛和)

| 4 June 2012

20 May 2016{{age in days|2012|6|4|2016|5|20}}

| Kuomintang

| Sean Chen
Jiang Yi-huah
Mao Chi-kuo
Chang San-cheng

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 31

| align=center|Sheu Yu-jer (許虞哲)

| 20 May 2016

15 July 2018{{age in days|2016|5|20|2018|7|15}}

| Independent

| Lin Chuan
William Lai

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 32

| align=center|Su Jain-rong (蘇建榮)

| 16 July 2018

25 December 2022{{age in days|2018|7|16|2022|12|25}}

|

| William Lai
Su Tseng-chang II

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | —

| align=center|Juan Ching-hwa (阮清華)

| 26 December 2022

30 January 2023{{age in days|2022|12|26|2023|01|30}}

|

| Su Tseng-chang II

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- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 33

| align=center|Chuang Tsui-yun (莊翠雲)

| 31 January 2023

Incumbent{{age in days|2023|1|31}}

|

| Chen Chien-jen
Cho Jung-tai

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Access

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

See also

Notes and references

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  • Ministry of Finance, [https://www.mof.gov.tw/webPage.asp?ctNode=182&CtUnit=24&BaseDSD=7&CuItem=9118 歷任部長基本資料], retrieved 2005-03-02.

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