Ministry of Finance and Public Credit

Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público

Ministry Headquarters in Bogotá
Ministry overview
Formed18 July 1923 (1923-07-18)
Preceding agencies
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Ministry of the Treasury
HeadquartersCarrera 8 № 6-64
Bogotá
04°35′38.61″N 74°04′42.02″W / 4.5940583°N 74.0783389°W / 4.5940583; -74.0783389
Annual budgetCOP$9,304,856,303,466 (2012)[1]
COP$12,645,417,534,968 (2013)[2]
COP$18,101,483,002,550 (2014)[3]
Ministry executive
Child agencies
Websitewww.minhacienda.gov.co

The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Spanish: Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público), is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for the financial and budgetary matters of the country as well as implementing the financial policies passed by Congress, equivalent to the finance ministries of other countries.

The Ministry was created on 18 July 1923 by fusing together the existing Ministries of Finance and of the Treasury.[4]

The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit is active in developing financial inclusion policy and is a member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.[5]

  1. ^ Colombia, Congress of (14 December 2011). "Ley 1485 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 283). Bogotá: 6. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. ^ Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 640). Bogotá: 5. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. ^ Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (49, 001). Bogotá: 9. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  4. ^ Colombia, Congress of (18 July 1923). "Ley 31 de 1923" (PDF) (in Spanish). Bogotá. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  5. ^ "AFI members". AFI Global. 2011-10-10. Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2012-02-17.