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n. the minister responsible for state finances [syn: finance minister]
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The Minister of Finance is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible each year for presenting the federal government's budget. It is one of the most important positions in the Cabinet.
Because of the prominence and responsibility on this cabinet position, it is not uncommon for former Finance Ministers to be elected Prime Minister. Charles Tupper, R. B. Bennett, John Turner, Jean Chrétien, and Paul Martin have all become Prime Minister after previously serving as Minister of Finance.
The Minister of Finance, originally known as Colonial Treasurer, is a senior figure within the government of New Zealand. The position is often considered to be the most important Cabinet role after that of the Prime Minister.
The current Minister of Finance is Bill English. There are also two Associate Minister roles. They are currently held by Steven Joyce and Paula Bennett.
The Finance Minister of Pakistan heads the Ministry of Finance and serves in the Prime Minister's cabinet. The Minister is required to be a member of the Parliament.
The Minister of Finance is a cabinet minister in the government of Manitoba. Prior to 1969, the minister was styled as the Provincial Treasurer. Many regard the Finance Minister as the second-most important member of government, after the Premier.
The Finance Minister is responsible for managing the province's fiscal resources, overseeing taxation policies, and allocating funds to other governmental departments. Every year, the minister submits a budget to the legislature outlining anticipated expenditures and revenues for the next twelve months. The minister is also required to submit a completed financial report for the annual cycle just completed.
The Finance portfolio is the oldest cabinet position in the province, predating the office of Premier by four years. The first Provincial Secretary in Manitoba was Marc-Amable Girard, who was appointed to the position on September 16, 1870 by Lieutenant-Governor Adams George Archibald soon after his arrival in the province. Until January 1871, Girard and Provincial Secretary Alfred Boyd were the only members of Archibald's ministry.
Prior to 1977, it was not considered unusual for Manitoba's provincial premiers to reserve the position of Treasurer or Finance Minister for themselves. In the twentieth century, John Bracken, Stuart Garson, Douglas L. Campbell, Dufferin Roblin and Edward Schreyer all assumed this responsibility at one time or another (indeed, Roblin was his own Treasurer for the entire extent of his term in office). No premier has taken this responsibility since 1977, and such a combination of responsibilities would now be considered very unlikely.
Since the introduction of partisan politics in 1888, all Manitoba Finance Ministers have belonged to the governing party of the day. During the coalition ministry which governed Manitoba from 1940 to 1950, the position was reserved for members of the dominant Liberal-Progressive Party.
In early 2005, then Minister of Finance Greg Selinger indicated that his department would soon move to a system known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, which had already been adopted in most other provinces.
The current Finance Minister of Manitoba is Cameron Friesen of the Progressive Conservatives.
The is the member of the Cabinet of Japan in charge of the Ministry of Finance. This position was formerly cited as being Japan's most powerful and one of the world's, because Japan had historically held the largest foreign exchange reserves. It seems that title has been passed to Bank of Japan governors, due to Japan's position as the world's largest and lowest rate creditor.
Until 2001, the position was known in Japanese literally as "Treasury Minister" , but the English name was "Minister of Finance" both before and after the name change in Japanese.
The Minister of Finance of Finland (in Finnish valtiovarainministeri, in Swedish finansminister) handles the Finance of Finland and all other matters covered by the Ministry of Finance. The current Minister of Finance is Alexander Stubb.
The Ministry of Finance of Finland has two Ministers in the Council of State: Minister of Finance Alexander Stubb and Minister of Local Government and Public Reforms Anu Vehviläinen.
The Minister of Finance is an appointment in the Cabinet of Sri Lanka. The post was created in 1947 with the Ceylon gaining independence and establishing self governess. The post has always been held by a senior member of the ruling party and in the recent years by the President with a deputy minister. The post has been known as Minister of Finance & Planning, when the portfolio includes national planning.
This is the list of Finance ministers in the Belgian Federal Cabinet. The current Michel Government includes Johan Van Overtveldt as Finance minister.
The minister oversees the Federal Public Service Finance .
Minister of Finance is the person in charge of the Ministry of Finance of Serbia. Dušan Vujović is the current Minister of Finance, since 15 July 2014.
The Minister of Finance (or simply, finance minister) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the Union Cabinet, the finance minister is responsible for the fiscal policy of the government. As part of this, a key duty of the Finance Minister is to present the annual Union Budget in Parliament, which details the government's plan for taxation and spending in the coming financial year. Through the Budget, the finance minister also outlines the allocations to different ministries and departments. Occasionally, he is assisted by the Minister of State for Finance and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of Finance.
The first finance minister of independent India was R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, who also presented its first Budget. The incumbent Arun Jaitley, of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has held office since 26 May 2014.
The Minister of Finance (de facto Deputy Prime Minister) was a member of the Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland ( Cabinet) in the Parliament of Northern Ireland which governed Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972. The post was combined with that of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland for a brief period in 1940 - 41 and was vacant for two weeks during 1953, following the death of incumbent Minister John Maynard Sinclair. The Office was often seen as being occupied by the Prime Minister's choice of successor. Two Ministers of Finance went on to be Prime Minister, while two more, Maginness and Jack Andrews were widely seen as possible successors to the Premiership.
Name
Took Office
Prime Minister
colspan=2|Party
1.
Hugh MacDowell Pollock
7 June 1921
Craigavon
2.
John Miller Andrews
21 April 1937
Craigavon, Andrews
3.
John Milne Barbour
16 January 1941
Andrews
4.
John Maynard Sinclair
6 May 1943
Brookeborough
Vacant
31 January 1953
Brookeborough
5.
Brian Maginess
13 February 1953
Brookeborough
6.
George Boyle Hanna
20 April 1956
Brookeborough
7.
Terence O'Neill
21 September 1956
Brookeborough
8.
Jack Andrews
25 March 1963
O'Neill
9.
Ivan Neill
22 July 1964
O'Neill
10.
Herbert Kirk
2 April 1965
O'Neill, Chichester-Clark, Faulkner
The Minister of Finance is a minister in the Cabinet of South Africa who is the political head of the National Treasury. The Minister of Finance is responsible for the financial management of government affairs, drawing up the budget, and developing economic policy (in cooperation with the Minister of Economic Development and the Minister of Trade and Industry). The Minister of Finance is also responsible for Statistics South Africa and the South African Revenue Service.
The Finance Minister of Bangladesh heads the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Bangladesh. It is one of the most important positions in the Cabinet and the Finance Minister must deal with all the other departments and plays an important role in deciding the funding levels for each.
The Finance Minister is responsible each year for presenting the government's budget.
The Minister of Finance is the head of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs of the Government of Tanzania.
The Malaysian Minister of Finance is Najib Razak, since 2008.
The Second Minister of Finance is Johari Abdul Ghani, since 2016.
The ministers are supported by two Deputy Minister of Finance, Othman Aziz and Lee Chee Leong.
In the Government of Malaysia, the minister is responsible for areas such as government expenditure, financial management, and the operations of government. The minister administers the portfolio through the Ministry of Finance.
This is a list of finance ministers of Tunisia.
- 1956–1958: Hedi Amara Nouira
- 1958: Bahi Ladgham
- 1958–1960: Ahmed Mestiri
- 1960: Bahi Ladgham
- 1960–1961: Hédi Khefacha
- 1961–1969: Ahmed Ben Salah
- 1969–1971: Abderrazak Rassaa
- 1971–1977: Mohamed Fitouri
- 1977–1980: Abdelaziz Mathari
- 1980–1983: Mansour Moalla
- 1983–1986: Salah Ben M'barka
- 1986: Rachid Sfar
- 1986–1987: Ismaïl Khelil
- 1987–1989: Nouri Zorgati
- 1989–1992: Mohamed Ghannouchi
- 1992–1997: Nouri Zorgati
- 1997–1999: Mohamed Jeri
- 1999–2004: Taoufik Baccar
- 2004: Mounir Jaidane
- 2004–2010: Mohamed Rachid Kechiche
- 2010–2011: Mohamed Ridha Chalghoum
- 2011: Jalloul Ayed
- 2011–2012: Houcine Dimassi
- 2012–2013: Slim Besbes (interim)
- 2013–2014: Elyes Fakhfakh
- 2014–2015: Hakim Ben Hammouda
- 2015–present: Slim Chaker
The Minister of Finance ( Estonian: Rahandusminister) is the senior minister at the Ministry of Finance (Rahandusministeerium) in the Estonian Government. The Minister is one of the most important members of the Estonian government, with responsibility for coordinating the governments policies on national finances. The position was originally established in 1918.
The Minister of Finance is chosen by the Prime Minister as a part of the government. The current Finance Minister is Sven Sester.
Usage examples of "minister of finance".
General Smuts glanced down the table at Blaine Malcomess and Deneys Reitz, his confidants and two of his nominees for the new cabinet, but none of them spoke while Hertzog and Nicolaas Havenga, the Nationalist minister of finance, settled themselves on the opposite side of the long table.
However, I want to pass on to you something a close friend once told me-who I'm sure knows what he's talking about, because he was Japan's Deputy Minister of Finance for a time during the 19605.
I had to buy one prime minister, two generals, some tribal chiefs and a minister of finance--cheap for such a hurry-up job.
I had to buy one prime minister, two generals, some tribal chiefs and a minister of finance—.
This only served to augment the enmity of the Parliament, and when D'Argenson, a man devoted to the interests of the Regent, was appointed to the vacant chancellorship, and made at the same time minister of finance, they became more violent than ever.
The day came when, in the Emperor's study, Minister of Finance Yaebu tried to explain the workings of that marvelous new invention, paper money.
Tall, slender, and energetic, appearing more Italian than African, Salaam was the minister of finance under former president Muhammad Hosni Mubarak and leader of the National Democratic Party upon Mubarak's retirement from politics.
The Second Deputy Minister of Finance, that's who, and I rather suspect that his position as king of counterfeiters is temporary.