Ministry of Finances (Kingdom of Italy)
The Ministry of Finances (Italian: Ministero delle Finanze, MI.FIN.) is the Ministry of the Government of the Duce which carries out the functions and duties pertaining to the State in matters of financial policy. The Ministry's activities include those aimed at coordinating and verifying tax policies and the tax system and state assets.
The Ministry is also responsible for supervising entities, activities and functions.
Functions and Tasks
The Ministry of Finances, in the active management of financial policy, performs the functions of State competence in the following areas:
- Financial planning
- Financial policy
- Fiscal policies
- General administration, indivisible services and personnel
Financial planning
Financial planning consists in the elaboration of financial planning lines, in the elaboration and coordination of financial planning documents and official macroeconomic forecasts, together with the Treasury Ministry and the Ministry of Corporations, in the forecasting, evaluation and monitoring of economic policies and management of financial relations with international organizations.
Financial policy
Financial policy consists of the management of public liquidity, regulation and supervisory policies relating to financial stability and crisis management in the banking/financial sector, including through the publicly owned banking system, the valorisation of the assets and capital of the State.
Tax policies
Tax policies consist in the analysis and evaluation of the national tax system, in the implementation of tax policy and tax functions, in the monitoring and control of the tax information system and in the planning, development and management of tax justice administration services.
Central organisation
The Ministry of Finances is subdivided into nine Directorates General:
- Directorate General for Tax Revenue;
- Directorate General of State Property;
- Directorate General of Customs and State Monopolies;
- Directorate General for Economic and Fiscal Studies and Research;
- Directorate General for tax legislation;
- Directorate General for international tax relations;
- Directorate General of Tax Justice;
- Directorate General for the information system of taxation;
- Directorate General for Administration and General Affairs;
- Royal Guard of Finance Liaison officer with the Ministry of Finances.
Directorate General for Tax Revenue
The Directorate General for Tax Revenue (Direzione Generale per le Entrate Fiscali) is the subdivision of the Ministry of Finances which performs the functions relating to tax assessments and controls and the management of taxes.
The Directorate General has the objective of guaranteeing the fulfillment of tax obligations by taxpaying citizens, it also carries out the services relating to the cadastre, the geo-topo-cartographic services and those relating to the real estate registers, with the task of establishing the registry of assets existing real estate on the national territory.
The Directorate General is subdivided into five Divisions:
- Division I - Regulatory Coordination
- Division II - Taxpayers
- Section I - Natural Persons, Self-employed Workers and Non-Commercial Entities
- Section II - Small and Medium Enterprises
- Section III - Central Directorate of Large Taxpayers and International affairs
- Division III - Services
- Section I - Tax Services
- Section II - Institutional Services
- Section III - Cadastral Cartographic Services and Real Estate Advertising
- Section IV - Appraisal Services and Real Estate Market Observatory
- Division IV - Collection
- Section I - Collection
- Office I - Notification
- Office II - Real Estate Analysis
- Section II - Taxpayer Assistance
- Section I - Collection
- Office III - Taxpayer Assistance and Claims
- Office IV - Taxpayer Services
- Section III - Local and Territorial Taxation
- Division V - Tax collection legislation and litigation
- Section I - Litigation
- Section II - Quality control
- Section III - Fiscal and tributary legislation
Directorate General of State Property
The Directorate General of State Property is the subdivision of the Ministry of Finance which takes care of the real estate assets of the State, with the responsibility of administering a portfolio of around 43,000 assets. The Directorate General is divided into a central structure, based in Rome, and 17 territorial directorates. While being part of a Ministry, it mainly operates within private law concepts. The Directorate General is subdivided into a Central Office and five Divisions:
- Division I - Strategic Planning
- Division II - Real Estate Strategies, Sustainability and Innovation
- Division III - Assets Governance
- Division IV - Assets Services
- Division V - Project elaboration and management
- Central Office for the regeneration of the Public Building
- Corporate Governance Council
Division III - Assets Governance
Division III - Heritage Governance is one of the two central operating Divisions of the Directorate General. The Division deals with the operational processes for the integrated management and optimal use of state real estate assets, also with the aim of promoting their use in favor of state administrations for institutional purposes.
In this context, the Division ensures knowledge of the managed assets, the digital development of the processes associated with property management, the dissemination of guidelines, guidelines and best practices to the territorial structures, pursuing the continuous improvement of the methods of providing services.
The Division handles the management of lease contracts, according to the guidelines of the Minister of Finance. The Division, in addition to the specific competences of the reference area, has the responsibility of guaranteeing a synergistic and integrated action with the other central structures to favour the optimal functioning of the Directorate General and the effective coordination of the territorial structures.
The Division also ensures the management of movable assets under its jurisdiction and of vehicles confiscated or abandoned for violation of the highway code, as well as the custody, administration and management of economic resources subject to freezing measures, according to the political directives of the Duce. The Division is divided into two Central Offices and three Sections:
- Central Office of the Divisional Head;
- Central Office for Real Estate Information and Archive;
- Section I - Assets and state property;
- Office I - Public property;
- Office II - Assets;
- Section II - Public administration;
- Office III - Real estate funds;
- Office IV - Leases and relationships with Public Administrations
- Office V - Specialist support to the Public Administration
- Section III - Vehicles, Movable assets and Support;
- Office VI - Movable assets and vehicles;
- Office VII - Operational support to the Territorial Directorates.
Corporatist Governance Council
The Directorate General of State Property is a subdivision of the Ministry of Finance. As such, employees are not subject to any type of private contract.
Nonetheless, it operates in a context comparable to the private dimension of the company and to the public economic body.
In order to allow the application of the constitutional principles concerning corporatism and the participation of workers in the management of the company, the Corporatist Corporate Council has been set up. It differs from the ordinary corporatist bodies and brings together elected representatives of the personnel of the Ministry assigned to the Directorate General according to order and rank.
The Council has essentially advisory functions as regards the concrete execution of the work and can propose to the Minister and the General Manager innovations and expedients on the subjects within the competence of the General Management itself.