The Japanese public is mightily cross about a Ministry of Finance decision to use tax money to liquidate seven jusen, or mortgage companies, last year.
"The revised Additional Buyer Stamp Duty measures are meant to moderate the demand for properties across all groups of buyers of properties, including Singapore citizens, Singapore permanent residents and foreigners, " a statement provided by a Ministry of Finance official said.
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In other countries, the process is often quite streamlined: a Ministry of Finance, which makes the political decision, a Treasury Department, which houses the professional staff for the ministry, and an Inland Revenue Service, which administers the tax system and is sometimes actively involved in policy formation.
The second change is that, in return for agreeing to a reduction in the corporate tax rate, the Ministry of Finance is closing a number of loopholes.
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To change interest rates it has to submit a request to the Ministry of Finance.
The movement is led by a single mother of three from the southern township of Mitzpe Ramon, Vicki Knafo, who walked the 120 miles to Jerusalem and is now encamped in a tent outside the ministry of finance.
This group is lobbying for tougher securities laws and the setting-up of a regulatory body independent of the finance ministry and modelled on America's Securities and Exchange Commission.
Economic liberals can look at the eleven year reign of Alexei Kudrin at the finance ministry with a great deal of satisfaction: Russia went from being a bankrupt basket-case to one of the most financially stable countries in the entire world.
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But it is hard to see how arms of the central government, particularly the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance, will resist securing a say in the destiny of many transferred enterprises at least until someone has carried out the giant task of auditing these companies to get the full measure of their mismanagement and value.
But Mr Soros acknowledged that the move would inevitably lead to greater integration of government budgets - including a European finance ministry - and that there was a lack of democratic legitimacy in Europe for this.
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But a year ago Mexico's Ministry of Finance granted 12 new banking licenses to local retailers Grupo Famsa, Coppel and other entrants.
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Since the publication of the white paper, various Chinese ministries including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Ministry of Finance, just to name a few, have all come out with their own sets of regulations regulating various aspects of Internet business and behavior.
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The reputation of the Ministry of Finance has been tarnished by bureaucratic involvement in a long string of financial scandals during the 1990s, culminating in the arrest of four officials for corruption in January and March.
Many think the move was influenced by bureaucrats in the finance ministry, a bastion of fiscal conservatism.
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This month a Shanghai banking regulator disclosed that the Ministry of Finance is drafting rules to control the financing subsidiaries of local governments.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the ministry of finance insisted the capital control measures were temporary and were needed to "safeguard the stability of the system".
In his early months in office, to please the old-guard rank and file, he made the nearly disastrous, but (in his view) tactically necessary decision to give the finance ministry to a darling of the left, Oskar Lafontaine.
For the first time since the beginning of 1996, when the finance ministry pushed through a highly unpopular package to liquidate seven huge mortgage companies, there is talk of using public money to solve the financial crisis.
Interestingly, the yen has strengthened at a time of increased speculation that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will finally purchase government bonds directly from the Ministry of Finance, effectively monetizing mounting domestic debt, a move caused by numerous unsuccessful stimulus measures and falling tax revenue.
The existence of corruption at the heart of the finance ministry is a serious matter.
He recently told the press that Sakakibara Eisuke, former vice minister for international affairs at Japan's Ministry of Finance, would make a "splendid" candidate.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Finance is scheduled to issue a 30 billion yuan for 2022 dated bonds.
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After hitting a series of 15-year highs, the Ministry of Finance started selling the yen when it reached 82.88 to the dollar.
The ostensible reason for the delay is a row between the department of telecommunications and the finance ministry, which wants to raise the minimum price in the auction.
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The bond quota issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic-planning body, will be used to help the ministry finance the maintenance and construction of a rapidly expanding railway network.
As one sign that foreign investors are cooling to Japan's markets, the finance ministry reported Thursday a sharp drop in purchases of Japanese stocks by overseas investors.
Ironically, at the beginning of April this year the finance ministry introduced a new rule under which pension funds could count life policies as investments guaranteed to return principal, thereby making it easier to invest in life insurance.
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