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Who we are and what we do You probably know that we are in charge of the federal budget as well as tax and fiscal policy. But we do much more than that.
Min­is­ter and Se­nior Lead­er­ship The Federal Minister of Finance is responsible for Germany’s fiscal, budget and tax policy. Six deputy ministers assist him in this work.
Di­rec­torates-Gen­er­al An overview of the Ministry’s directorates-general: taxes, EU finances, strategy, communications, and more.
Ad­vi­so­ry Board The Advisory Board supports our work by publishing expert opinions and reports on fiscal policy matters.
Events at the Min­istry The Finance Ministry regularly hosts events and exhibitions. To receive invitations, register for our event mailing list.
His­to­ry The Detlev Rohwedder Building has been the Finance Ministry’s head office since 1999. Here is an outline of the building’s eventful history.
Vis­i­tors' Ser­vice The visitors’ service welcomes groups who are interested in the ministry’s work.
Di­rec­tions Directions to the Ministry’s Berlin and Bonn offices, with maps and taxi information.

Minister and senior leadership

Fed­er­al Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Olaf Scholz is re­spon­si­ble for all as­pects of Ger­man fis­cal and tax pol­i­cy and de­ter­mines the broad out­line of bud­getary pol­i­cy. In per­form­ing these func­tions, he is sup­port­ed by two par­lia­men­tary state sec­re­taries and four per­ma­nent state sec­re­taries.

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The Ministry and its subordinate authorities

The Fed­er­al Rev­enue Ad­min­is­tra­tion in the nar­row sense en­com­pass­es the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Fi­nance as the supreme fed­er­al au­thor­i­ty, as well as a num­ber of oth­er au­thor­i­ties and agen­cies.

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Directorates-General

The Min­istry is com­prised of sev­er­al di­rec­torates-gen­er­al re­spon­si­ble for pub­lic fi­nances, tax­a­tion, Eu­ro­pean fis­cal pol­i­cy as well as or­gan­i­sa­tion­al mat­ters, strat­e­gy and com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

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Advisory Board

The Ad­vi­so­ry Board (Wis­senschaftlich­er Beirat) ad­vis­es the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Fi­nance by reg­u­lar­ly pub­lish­ing ex­pert opin­ions and re­ports on cur­rent is­sues.

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Events at the Ministry

The Ger­man Min­istry of Fi­nance reg­u­lar­ly hosts events and ex­hi­bi­tions. To re­ceive in­vi­ta­tions, sim­ply reg­is­ter for our event mail­ing list.

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History

The Detlev Ro­hwed­der Build­ing, lo­cat­ed in the Wil­helm­straße in Berlin’s his­tor­i­cal gov­ern­ment quar­ter, has been the head of­fice of the Ger­man Fi­nance Min­istry since 1999.

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Visitors' Service

The vis­i­tors’ ser­vice wel­comes groups who are in­ter­est­ed in the min­istry’s work. Vis­i­tors have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to talk di­rect­ly to min­istry staff and learn more about the min­istry’s tasks, work­ing meth­ods and goals.

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Directions to the Ministry’s offices

Here you can find in­for­ma­tion on the di­rec­tions to the Min­istry’s Berlin and Bonn of­fices, maps de­tails as well as in­for­ma­tion on taxi fares.

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