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. 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%)
It also responsible for overseeing the independent government financial regulatory agency:
- Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)
Read more about this topic: Ministry Of Finance (Netherlands)
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