The Ministry of Finance is the
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, an ...
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government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government i ...
department responsible for the implementation of tax, financial and fiscal policies, and setting economic goals.
Areas of activity of ministry
* planning and implementation of the state’s fiscal policy;
* planning tax and customs policy, and maintaining a stable tax system;
* economic analysis and economic forecast;
* development of the public service;
* reviewing applications for permits for aid granted by the state to business (
state aid
State aid in the European Union is the name given to a subsidy or any other aid provided by a government that distorts competitions. Under European Union competition law the term has a legal meaning, being any measure that demonstrates any of t ...
) and advising aid donors;
* advising suppliers and tenderers on carrying out
public procurement
Government procurement or public procurement is the procurement of goods, services and works on behalf of a public authority, such as a government agency. Amounting to 12 percent of global GDP in 2018, government procurement accounts for a sub ...
and supervising public procurement;
[Rahandusministeerium]
Public Procurement Policy
accessed 14 June 2018
* collection of national statistics;
* organising and coordinating the implementation of the government’s internal control system and the professional activities of internal auditors;
* state accountancy;
* allocating the state’s financial assets and liabilities, foreign aid and loans granted to the state;
* coordinating the aid available to Estonia;
* financial and insurance policy;
* planning and coordinating the state’s real estate and participation policy.
See also
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Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ...
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Minister of Public Administration
References
External links
Ministry of Finance
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Finance
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of f ...
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, an ...