Ministry of Finance (Ukraine)
| Міністерство фінансів України | |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Jurisdiction | Ukraine |
| Headquarters | 12/2 Mykhailo Hrushevsky Street, Kiev |
| Minister responsible |
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| Parent agency | Cabinet of Ministers |
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| Website | http://minfin.gov.ua/ |
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство фінансів України) was created in 1991 soon after Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union. For short it is known as MinFin.
It is the main body in the system of central bodies of executive power in insuring the realization of a single state financial, budgetary, taxation, and customs policies as well as the policy in the sphere of state internal financial control, issuing and conducting lotteries, development and production of holographic protective elements.[2] It is usually abbreviated as minfin or MOF. The ministry manages its sphere of operations and is fully responsible for its development.
Structure
Aside of the main body of the agency (multiple departments) there are six other special state services subordinated to the minfin:
- State treasury service
- State Fiscal Service
- State service of financial monitoring
- State financial inspection
Note: National assay office known as State assay service was liquidated on 10 September 2014, all functions of state control over assay were transferred directly to the Ministry of Finance.[3]
Supporting establishments
- Scientific-researching financial institute
- State gemological center of Ukraine
- State repository of precious metals and stones
- Museum of decorative and precious stones
Main duties
- State financial control and accountability
- State budget financing through its treasury services
- Issuing and conducting state lotteries
- Organization and control over production of securities
- Extraction, production, exploitation, and safekeeping of precious metals and precious stones, precious stones of organogenic origin and semi-precious stones, their circulation and accounability
- Prevention and counteracting to money laundering and financing of terrorism
List of Ministers of Finance
Government Building in Hrushevsky Street, Kiev
| Name of parent agency | Name of minister | Term of Office | |
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| Start | End | ||
| General Secretariat of Ukraine | Khrystofor Baranovsky | June 15, 1917 | January 30, 1918 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Stepan Perepelytsya | January 30, 1918 | February 1918 |
| Petro Klymovych | February 1918 | April 29, 1918 | |
| Council of Ministers (1918) | Anton Rzhepitskiy | April 30, 1918 | December 14, 1918 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Vasyl Mazurenko | December 26, 1918 | January 1919 |
| Borys Martos | January 1919 | February 13, 1919 | |
| Mykhailo Kryvetsky | February 13, 1919 | April 9, 1919 | |
| Borys Martos | April 9, 1919 | May 25, 1920 | |
| Khrystofor Baranovsky | May 28, 1920 | November 21, 1920 | |
| People's Secretariat | Stanislav Kosior | March 1918 | April 1918 |
| Joachim Vatsetis | 1918 | September 1918 | |
| Mikhail Bogolyepov | November 28, 1918 | 1918 | |
| Temporary Government of Peasants and Workers |
Fridrikh Zemit | 1918 | 1919 |
| People's Secretariat | Mykola Lytvynenko | 1922 | 1923 |
| Stepan Kuznyetsov | 1923 | 1925 | |
| Mykhailo Poloz | 1925 | 1930 | |
| Oleksandr Rekis | 193? | 193? | |
| Mykola Kurach | 1937 | 1944 | |
| Heorhiy Sakhnovsky | 1944 | 1951 | |
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| Mykola Shchetinin | 1954 | 1954 | |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Anatoliy Baranovsky | 1961 | August 22, 1979 |
| Vasyl Kozeruk | August 22, 1979 | March 6, 1987 | |
| Ivan Zabrodin | March 6, 1987 | 1990 | |
| Ivan Zaichuk | 1990 | 1990 | |
| Oleksandr Kovalenko | August 2, 1990 | August 24, 1990 | |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Oleksandr Kovalenko | August 24, 1990 | October 29, 1991 |
| Hryhoriy Piatachenko | October 29, 1991 | July 6, 1994 | |
| Petro Hermanchuk | July 6, 1994 | June 18, 1996 | |
| Valentyn Koronevsky | June 18, 1996 | February 25, 1997 | |
| Ihor Mityukov | February 26, 1997 | December 27, 2001 | |
| Ihor Yushko | December 27, 2001 | November 26, 2002 | |
| Mykola Azarov | November 26, 2002 | February 3, 2005 | |
| Viktor Pynzenyk | February 4, 2005 | August 4, 2006 | |
| Mykola Azarov | August 4, 2006 | December 18, 2007 | |
| Viktor Pynzenyk | December 18, 2007 | February 17, 2009 | |
| Ihor Umansky (acting) | April 8, 2009 | March 11, 2010 | |
| Fedir Yaroshenko[4] | March 11, 2010 | January 18, 2012[5] | |
| Valeriy Khoroshkovsky[5] | January 18, 2012 | February 22, 2012[6] | |
| Yuriy Kolobov[7] | February 28, 2012[7] | 27 February 2014 | |
| Oleksandr Shlapak | 27 February 2014 | 2 December 2014 | |
| Natalie Jaresko[8] | 2 December 2014[8] | 14 April 2016[1] | |
| Oleksandr Danylyuk[1] | 14 April 2016[1] | Present | |
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
- ↑ Declaration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #1837 (December 27, 2006)
- ↑ About optimization of system of the central bodies of executive power. Cabinet of Ukraine statement. 10 September 2014
- ↑ VR approved structure of Cabinet of Ministers (update), UNIAN (March 11, 2010)
- 1 2 Yanukovych dismisses Khoroshkovsky from military service, Kyiv Post (19 January 2012)
- ↑ Khoroshkovsky dismissed as finance minister, appointed first deputy prime minister, Interfax Ukraine (22 February 2012)
- 1 2 Yanukovych appoints Kolobov as finance minister, Kyiv Post (28 February 2012)
- 1 2 Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup, Interfax-Ukraine (2 December 2014)
Rada approves new Cabinet with three foreigners, Kyiv Post (2 December 2014)
(Ukrainian) Rada voted the new Cabinet, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 December 2014)
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