Ministry of FinanceGovernment

The Ministry of Finance (Finansdepartementet) is a government ministry in Sweden responsible for economic policy, the central government budget, taxation, and financial markets regulation. It was established in 1840 during Sweden's departmental reform, which reorganized the central state administration into specialized ministries under the monarch and cabinet. Over the 20th century, the ministry played a central role in designing and financing the development of the modern Swedish welfare state model.