Ministry of Finance

Dutch: Ministerie van Financiën
Logo of the Ministry of Finance
Building of the Ministry of Finance
Department overview
Formed	12 March 1798; 226 years ago (1798-03-12)
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Headquarters	Korte Voorhout 7, The Hague, Netherlands
Employees	1,500
Annual budget	€11,7 billion (2013)[1]
Minister responsible	Steven van Weyenberg, Minister of Finance
Deputy Minister responsible	Marnix van Rij Aukje de Vries, State Secretaries for Finance
Department executive	Manon Leijten, Secretary-General
Website	Ministry 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]

History

The ministry was founded in 1798. In the early history of the ministry, the Prime Minister often served as Minister of Finance. Pieter Philip van Bosse served as Minister of Finance five times. Since 1965 a State Secretary has been appointed each formation with responsibility for taxation. The most recent Prime Minister to serve as his own Minister of Finance was Jelle Zijlstra (1966–67).

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 of the Netherlands.
• 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 minister and two State secretary. The ministry's main office is located in the centre of The Hague at the Korte Voorhout. 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 Treasury (financial economic policy), led by the Treasurer-General^[3]
  • Agency of the General Treasury
  • Directorate Financing
  • Directorate Financial Markets
  • Directorate Foreign Financial Relations
• Directorate General for the Budget^[4]
  • Directorate Budget Affairs
  • Inspection of National Finances
• Directorate General for Fiscal Affairs^[5]
  • Directorate General Fiscal Policy
  • Directorate Taxation Management
  • Directorate International Affairs and Excise Tax
• Directorate General for Taxation

It is also responsible for several decentralized services:

• The agency in Amsterdam^{[clarification needed]}
• The Tax and Customs Administration, the Dutch revenue service, which includes the customs service and the fiscal policy
• Service for State Property
• Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)

Holdings

A list of all companies (partially owned) by the Dutch government via the Ministry of Finance.^[6]

State holdings

List of companies of which the Ministry of Finance acts merely as shareholder.

Company (abbreviation)	Share	Sector	Country of operation
Holland Casino N.V.	100%	Gambling	Netherlands
Invest-NL N.V.	100%	Finance
De Nederlandse Investeringsbank voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V.	100%
SRH N.V.	100%
Centrale Organisatie Voor Radioactief Afval (COVRA)	100%	Nuclear waste management
Nederlandse Gasunie N.V. (Gasunie)	100%	Energy	Netherlands  Germany
TenneT Holding B.V.	100%
Ultra Centrifuge Nederland N.V. (UCN)	100%		Netherlands  United Kingdom
Nederlandse Spoorwegen N.V. (NS)	100%	Transport	Netherlands  United Kingdom  Germany
Nederlandse Loterij B.V.	99%	Gambling	Netherlands
Luchthaven Schiphol N.V.	69,77%	Infrastructure	Netherlands France  United States  Australia
Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij Voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (FMO)	51%	Finance	Netherlands
BNG Bank	50%
Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V.	29,2%	Infrastructure	Netherlands  Brasil  Oman  Indonesia
Nederlandse Waterschapsbank N.V. (NWB Bank)	17,2%	Finance	Netherlands
Air France-KLM	14%	Transport	Netherlands  France
KLM	5,92%		Netherlands
Thales Nederland	1%	Defence

Policy holdings

List of policy holdings in which the role of shareholder and policy maker cannot be unbundled from each other. These companies are (partially) owned by the Ministry of Finance and managed by the relevant ministry.

Company	Share	Sector	Ministry
ProRail B.V.	100%	Infrastructure	Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management	Netherlands
De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)	100%	Finance	Ministry of Finance
EBN B.V.	100%	Energy	Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Saba Statia Cable System B.V. (SSCS)	100%	Communication	Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations	Saba
Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij oost Nederland N.V. (Oost NL)	54,6%	Private equity	Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy	Netherlands
Industriebank Limburgs Instituut voor Ontwikkeling en Financiering N.V. (LIOF)	50%
Noord-Nederlandse Investerings- en Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij N.V. (NOM)	50%
Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM)	49,9%
Investeringsfonds Zeeland B.V.	47,3%
Innovation Quarter B.V.	40,2%
GasTerra B.V.	10%	Energy
Dutch Caribbean Air Navigation Service Provider (DC-ANSP)	7,95%	Infrastructure	Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management	Curaçao
Winair	7,95%	Transport		Sint Maarten
Saba Bank Resources N.V. (Saba Bank)	2,8%	Energy	Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy	Saba

Temporarily financial institutions

NLFI is the shareholder on behalf of the Dutch Government in the financial institutions that are state-owned as a result of the financial crisis.

Company		Share	Sector	Country of operation
Stichting administratiekantoor beheer financiële instellingen / NL Financial Investments (NLFI)		100%	Finance	Netherlands
	ABN AMRO Bank N.V.	56%
	Volksbank N.V.	100%