Ministry of Finance (Spain)

Ministry of Finance
Ministerio de Hacienda

Main headquarters
Agency overview
FormedNovember 30, 1714; 309 years ago (1714-11-30) (as Veeduría General)
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Spain
HeadquartersReal Casa de la Aduana 5, Calle de Alcalá Madrid
Employees33,720 (2019)[note 1][1]
Annual budget€ 21.7 billion, 2023[2]
Minister responsible
Agency executives
  • Inés Bardón, Secretary of State for Finance and President of the Spanish Tax Agency
  • María José Gualda Romero, Secretary of State for Budgets and Expenditures
  • María del Pilar Peneque, Under-Secretary
Child agencies
WebsiteMinistry of the Treasury(in Spanish)

The Ministry of Finance or Ministry of Treasury (MH) is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for planning and carrying out the government policy on public finance and budget. It applies and manages the regional and local financing systems and the provision of information on the economic-financial activity of the different Public Administrations.[5]

The Finance Ministry also manages the cadastre and collects all the State taxes through the Agencia Tributaria as well as controlling the state-owned enterprises through the State Company of Industrial Participations (SEPI). Likewise, the MH manages the central government goods, the European funds and the public lottery.[5] However, most of its duties are carried out by autonomous agencies like the Tax Agency and the Royal Mint.

The MH is headed by the Minister of Finance, who is appointed by the King of Spain at request of the Prime Minister. The Minister is assisted by three main officials, the Secretary of State for Finance, the Secretary of State for Budgets and Expenditures and the Under-Secretary of the Department.

Since June 2018, the current Minister of the Treasury is María Jesús Montero, who previously served as Regional Minister of Finance of the region of Andalusia.[6]


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  1. ^ Ministry of Territorial Policy and Civil Service (2018). Statistical Bulletin of the personnel at the service of the Public Administrations (PDF). pp. 32 and 48. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "2023 State Budget" (PDF). www.boe.es. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Secretaría de Estado de Hacienda: Ministerio de Hacienda y Función Pública". Minhafp.gob.es. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Secretaría de Estado de Presupuestos y Gastos: Ministerio de Hacienda y Función Pública". Minhafp.gob.es. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Royal Decree 1113/2018, of September 7, by which the basic organic structure of the Ministry of the Treasury is developed". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
  6. ^ "This is Spain's new cabinet". www.thelocal.es. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2019-04-17.