Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)

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The Ministry of Finance (Ministerie van Financiën; Fin) is the Dutch ministry of finance: it is occupied with the national budget, taxation and financial economic policy, including supervision of financial markets. The current minister is Jan Kees de Jager.

Responsibilities

The ministry has the duty to "guard the treasury and aim for a financially sound and prosperous state of the Netherlands’" .

• It is responsible for the income and expenditure of the Kingdom.
• It collects the taxes and develops fiscal legislation.
• It seeks to expend the budget of the government responsibly, efficiently and effectively.
• It is also responsible for financial-economic policy.
• It supervises the financial markets, banks and financial transfers.

Organisation

The ministry is currently headed by one ministers and one state secretary. The ministry's main office is located in the centre of The Hague at the Korte Voorhout. Since March 2006 the ministry is renovated and it is temporarily housed in the Prinessenhof.^{[citation needed]} It employs almost 1,500 civil servants. The civil service is headed by a secretary general and a deputy secretary general, who head a system of four directorates general:

• General Thesaury (financial economic policy)
• Directorate General for the Budget
• Directorate General for Fiscal Affairs
• Directorate General for Taxation

It is also responsible for several decentralized services:

• The agency in Amsterdam
• The Tax and Customs Administration, the Dutch revenue service, which includes the customs service and the fiscal police
• Service for State Property

The ministry also owns most of the shares the Dutch government owns, which are all nationalized companies. These include

• Connexxion Holding NV (33%)
• Centrale Organisatie voor Radio-actief Afval (COVRA) NV (100%)
• De Nederlandsche Bank NV (100%)
• Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt NV (100%)
• NV Nederlandse Gasunie (100%)
• NV Nederlandse Spoorwegen (100%)
• NOB Holding (100%)
• NV Luchthaven Schiphol (75,8%)
• Havenbedrijf Rotterdam (33%)
• Gasterra (voorheen Gasunie T&S) (10%)
• Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (5,9%)

History

The ministry was founded in 1813. Since 1965 a state secretary has been appointed each formation with responsibility for taxation.

List of Ministers of Finance

Minister of Finance	In Office	Party	Prime Minister	Cabinet	Note(s)
Piet Lieftinck	June 24, 1945 - July 1, 1952	Labour Party	Wim Schermerhorn (1945-1946) Louis Beel (1946-1948) Willem Drees (1948-1952)	Schermerhorn-Drees Beel I Drees-Van Schaik Drees I	(Resigned)
Willem Drees	July 1, 1952 - September 2, 1952	Labour Party	Willem Drees	Drees I	Prime Minister (Ad interim)
Johan van de Kieft	September 2, 1952 - October 13, 1956	Labour Party	Willem Drees	Drees II
Henk Hofstra	October 13, 1956 – December 22, 1958	Labour Party	Willem Drees	Drees III
Jelle Zijlstra	December 22, 1958 – July 24, 1963	Anti Revolutionary Party	Louis Beel (1958-1959) Jan de Quay (1959-1963)	Beel II De Quay
Johan Witteveen	July 24, 1963 – April 14, 1965	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Victor Marijnen	Marijnen
Anne Vondeling	April 14, 1965 - November 22, 1966	Labour Party	Jo Cals	Cals	Deputy Prime Minister
Jelle Zijlstra	November 22, 1966 – April 5, 1967	Anti Revolutionary Party	Jelle Zijlstra	Zijlstra	Prime Minister
Johan Witteveen	April 5, 1967 – July 6, 1971	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Piet de Jong	De Jong	Deputy Prime Minister
Roelof Nelissen	July 6, 1971 – May 11, 1973	Catholic People's Party	Barend Biesheuvel	Biesheuvel I Biesheuvel II	Deputy Prime Minister
Wim Duisenberg	May 11, 1973 – December 19, 1977	Labour Party	Joop den Uyl	Den Uyl
Frans Andriessen	December 19, 1977 - February 22, 1980	Christian Democratic Appeal	Dries van Agt	Van Agt I	(Resigned)
Gijs van Aardenne	February 22, 1980 - March 5, 1980	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Dries van Agt	Van Agt I	Minister of Economic Affairs (Ad interim)
Fons van der Stee	March 5, 1980 - November 4, 1982	Christian Democratic Appeal	Dries van Agt	Van Agt I Van Agt II Van Agt III
Onno Ruding	November 4, 1982 - November 7, 1989	Christian Democratic Appeal	Ruud Lubbers	Lubbers I Lubbers II
Wim Kok	November 7, 1989 – August 22, 1994	Labour Party	Ruud Lubbers	Lubbers III	Deputy Prime Minister
Gerrit Zalm	August 22, 1994 – July 22, 2002	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Wim Kok	Kok I Kok II
Hans Hoogervorst	July 22, 2002 – May 27, 2003	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Jan Peter Balkenende	Balkenende I
Gerrit Zalm	May 27, 2003 – February 22, 2007	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Jan Peter Balkenende	Balkenende II Balkenende III	Deputy Prime Minister
Wouter Bos	February 22, 2007 – February 23, 2010	Labour Party	Jan Peter Balkenende	Balkenende IV	Deputy Prime Minister (Resigned)
Jan Kees de Jager	Since February 23, 2010	Christian Democratic Appeal	Jan Peter Balkenende (2010) Mark Rutte (from 2010)	Balkenende IV Rutte

Living Ministers of Finance

Minister of Finance	Term	Age
Johan Witteveen	1963-1965, 1967-1971	(1921-06-12) June 12, 1921
Roelof Nelissen	1971-1973	(1931-04-04) April 4, 1931
Frans Andriessen	1977-1980	(1929-04-02) April 2, 1929
Onno Ruding	1982-1989	(1939-08-15) August 15, 1939
Wim Kok	1989-1994	(1938-09-29) September 29, 1938
Gerrit Zalm	1994-2002, 2003-2007	(1952-05-06) May 6, 1952
Hans Hoogervorst	2002-2003	(1956-04-19) April 19, 1956
Wouter Bos	2007–2010	(1963-07-14) July 14, 1963
Jan Kees de Jager	2010-	(1969-02-10) February 10, 1969

Last former Ministers of Finance who died

Minister of Finance	Term	Born	Died
Gijs van Aardenne	1980	March 18, 1930(1930-03-18)	August 10, 1995(1995-08-10) (aged 65)
Henk Hofstra	1956-1958	September 28, 1904(1904-09-28)	February 16, 1999(1999-02-16) (aged 94)
Fons van der Stee	1980-1982	July 30, 1928(1928-07-30)	September 9, 1999(1999-09-09) (aged 71)
Jelle Zijlstra	1958-1963, 1966-1967	August 27, 1918(1918-08-27)	December 23, 2001(2001-12-23) (aged 83)
Wim Duisenberg	1973-1977	July 9, 1935(1935-07-09)	July 31, 2005(2005-07-31) (aged 70)

See also

• Income tax in the Netherlands

External links

• Ministry of Finance homepage