Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)

Ministry of Finance
Dutch: Ministerie van Financiën
Logo of the Ministry of Finance

Building of the Ministry of Finance
Department overview
Formed12 March 1798 (1798-03-12)
JurisdictionKingdom of the Netherlands
HeadquartersKorte Voorhout 7, The Hague, Netherlands
Employees1,500
Annual budget€11,7 billion (2013)[1]
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Department executive
  • Manon Leijten, Secretary-General
WebsiteMinistry of Finance

The Ministry of Finance (Dutch: Ministerie van Financiën; FIN) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for economic policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, tax policy, incomes policy, financial regulation, the government budget and the financial market. The Ministry was created in 1798 as the Department of Finance of the Batavian Republic. It became the Ministry of Finance in 1876. The Minister of Finance (Dutch: Minister van Financiën) is the head of the Ministry and a member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands. The current Minister is Steven van Weyenberg.[2]

  1. ^ (in Dutch) IX Financiën en Nationale Schuld, Rijksoverheid, 18 September 2012
  2. ^ "Wopke Hoekstra (CDA), bezige bij en nu minister van Financiën" (in Dutch). NOS. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

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