Poland's Ministry of Finance ( pl, Ministerstwo Finansów), headed by the Minister of Finance ''(Minister Finansów)'', is part of the

government of Poland The Government of Poland takes the form of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government. However, its form of government has also been iden ...

. Among its powers and responsibilities it drafts the national budget, deals with

tax A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, or n ...

es, financing of the local

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s and issues related to

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. In the area of taxation, the ministry oversees a system of local and regional tax offices. A local tax office is called ''urząd skarbowy'' ("tax office"), while a higher-level office is called ''izba administracji skarbowej'' ("revenue administration regional office"). There are approximately 400 of the former throughout the country, and 16 of the latter, one in each

voivodeship A voivodeship is the area administered by a voivode (Governor) in several countries of central and eastern Europe. Voivodeships have existed since medieval times and the area of extent of voivodeship resembles that of a duchy in western medieval ...

(province). In each voivodeship there is also one "customs and tax control office" ''(urząd celno-skarbowy)''. The Ministry of Finance existed alongside the

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, which was responsible mainly for the management of nationally owned assets, and the

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Headquarters

The Ministry of Finance building is located in the quarter of Świętokrzyska, Czackiego, Traugutta and

Krakowskie Przedmieście Krakowskie Przedmieście (, literally: ''Cracow Fore-town''; french: link=no, Faubourg de Cracovie), often abbreviated to Krakowskie, is one of the best known and most prestigious streets of Poland's capital Warsaw, surrounded by historic palaces ...

streets in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

It is an example of socialist realist architecture. In 2012, it was entered in the register of monuments. The building was erected in 1953-1956 for the Ministry of Treasury. It was designed by Stanisław Bieńkuński and Stanisław Rychłowski. The architecture combines the features of modernism with the canons of socialist realism style, while applying the palace assumptions of the Renaissance and Baroque period.

List of ministers

Below is a list of

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s of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

Second Republic

* Władysław Byrka, 18.11.1918 - 16.01.1919 * Józef Englich, 16.01.1919 - 04.04.1919 * Stanisław Karpiński, 04.04.1919 - 31.07.1919 *

Leon Biliński Chevalier Leon de Biliński (15 June 1846 in Zalischyky, Galicia, now Ukraine – 14 June 1923 in Vienna) was a Polish-Austrian statesman of the Biliński family. He had several important political functions in the Habsburg monarchy and indep ...

, 31.07.1919 - 9.12.1919 *

Władysław Grabski Władysław Dominik Grabski (; 7 July 1874 – 1 March 1938) was a Polish National Democratic politician, economist and historian. He was the main author of the currency reform in the Second Polish Republic and served as Prime Minister of Poland ...

, 13.12.1919 - 26.11.1920 * Jan Kanty Steczkowski, 26.11.1920 - 18.09.1921 * Bolesław Markowski, 19.09.1921 - 26.09.1921 *

Jerzy Michalski Jerzy Michalski (9 April 1924 in Warsaw – 26 February 2007 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian, specializing in the 18th and 19th centuries. He was a professor of the Institutenof History at the Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of ...

, 26.09.1921 - 02.06.1922 * Zygmunt Jastrzębski, 28.06.1922 - 02.01.1923 * Bolesław Markowski, 09.01.1923 - 13.01.1923 *

, 13.01.1923 - 01.07.1923 * Hubert Linde, 01.07.1923 - 30.08.1923 * Władysław Kucharski, 01.09.1923 - 14.12.1923 *

, 19.12.1923 - 14.11.1925 * Jerzy Zdziechowski, 20.11.1925 - 15.05.1926 *

Gabriel Czechowicz Gabriel Czechowicz (1876-1938) was a Polish lawyer, economist and politician. He was the Polish Treasury Minister from 1926 to 1929. Accused of misuse of government funds, Czechowicz was the only Polish politician of the interwar period that fa ...

, 15.05.1926 - 04.06.1926 * Czesław Klarner, 08.06.1926 - 30.09.1926 *

, 02.10.1926 - 08.03.1929 * Ignacy Matuszewski, 14.04.1929 - 26.05.1931 * Jan Piłsudski, 27.05.1931 - 05.09.1932 * Władysław Marian Zawadzki, 05.09.1932 - 28.02.1935 * Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, 12.10.1935 - 17.09.1939 * Henryk Leon Strasburger, (1939–1942, Polish government in exile) Source:

Polish People's Republic (1947–1989)

*Konstanty Dąbrowski, 07.03.1950 - 20.11.1952 *Tadeusz Ditrich, 21.11.1952 - 28.07.1960 *Jerzy Albrecht, 16.11.1960 - 15.07.1968 *Stanisław Majewski, 15.07.1968 - 30.06.1969 *Józef Trendota, 01.07.1969 - 22.12.1971 *Stefan Jędrychowski, 22.12.1971 - 21.11.1974 *Henryk Kisiel, 21.11.1974 - 24.08.1980 *Marian Krzak, 24.08.1980 - 10.10.1982 *Stanisław Nieckarz, 09.10.1982 - 17.07.1986 *Bazyli Samojlik, 17.07.1986 - 13.10.1988 *Andrzej Wróblewski (politician), Andrzej Wróblewski, 14.10.1988 - 12.09.1989 Source:

Third Republic (since 1989)

* Leszek Balcerowicz (12 September 1989 – 5 December 1991) * Karol Lutkowski (23 December 1991 – 26 February 1992) * Andrzej Olechowski (26 February 1992 – 5 June 1992) * Jerzy Osiatyński (11 July 1992 – 26 October 1993) * Marek Borowski (26 October 1993 – 8 February 1994) * Grzegorz Kołodko (28 April 1994 – 4 February 1997) * Marek Belka (4 February 1997 – 17 October 1997) * Leszek Balcerowicz (31 October 1997 – 8 June 2000) * Jarosław Bauc (8 June 2000 – 28 August 2001) * Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner (28 August 2001 – 19 October 2001) * Marek Belka (19 October 2001 – 6 July 2002) * Grzegorz Kołodko (6 July 2002 – 16 June 2003) * Andrzej Raczko (16 June 2003 – 21 July 2004) * Mirosław Gronicki (21 July 2004 – 31 October 2005) * Teresa Lubińska (31 October 2005 – 7 January 2006) * Zyta Gilowska (7 January 2006 – 24 June 2006) * Paweł Wojciechowski (economist), Paweł Wojciechowski (24 June 2006 – 10 July 2006) * Stanisław Kluza (14 July 2006 - 22 September 2006) * Zyta Gilowska (22 September 2006 - 16 November 2007) * Jan Vincent-Rostowski (16 November 2007 – 27 November 2013) * Mateusz Szczurek (27 November 2013 – 16 November 2015) * Paweł Szałamacha (16 November 2015 – 28 September 2016) * Mateusz Morawiecki (28 September 2016 – 9 January 2018) * Teresa Czerwińska (9 January 2018 – 4 June 2019) * Marian Banaś (4 June 2019 – 30 August 2019) * Mateusz Morawiecki (30 August 2019 – 20 September 2019) * Jerzy Kwieciński (20 September 2019 - 15 November 2019) * Tadeusz Kościński (15 November 2019 - 9 February 2022) * Mateusz Morawiecki (acting since 9 February 2022) Source:

References

External links

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