Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國財政部) is a cabinet level executive yuan agency responsible for government revenue, taxation, treasury, government land properties, customs throughout the Free Area of the Republic of China. The current minister is Lee Sush-Der.
The Ministry of Finance also manages the administration of government land, tobacco and alcohol, deposit insurance for banking customers and export-import banking services.
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Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
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—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)