Senate Department for Finance
Senate Department for Finance |
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State level | Berlin |
position | Supreme state authority |
Headquarters | Berlin |
Authority management | Matthias Kollatz , Senator for Finance |
Servants | around 580 |
Web presence | www.berlin.de |
The Berlin Senate Department for Finance (SenF for short) is one of ten specialist administrations of the Berlin Senate with the rank of a state ministry and as such part of the state government as well as the highest state authority responsible for financial policy and budget planning in the German capital .
The current Senator for Finance has been Matthias Kollatz ( SPD ) since December 11, 2014 . He is supported by two State Secretaries : Vera Junker has been State Secretary for the areas of assets, participations and tax administration since September 10, 2019. Fréderic Verrycken has been State Secretary for budget and financial policy as well as for national staff since October 23, 2018.
Tasks and organization
The Senate Department for Finance employs around 580 people and is divided into five departments in addition to a separate management area.
Management area
The management area of the Senate Department for Finance includes the management staff with press and public relations work, committee matters, the offices of the senator and the state secretaries as well as the financial officer and European affairs department.
Department I for assets and participations
Department I for Assets is responsible for investment management and controlling for companies in the State of Berlin, as well as asset activation.
Papers:
- IA - Fundamental matters of participation policy, public-private partnership , target images, commercial businesses, tax compliance, IT
- IB - investment management 1
- IC - investment management 2 including matters of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH
- ID - real estate
- IE - location promotion, financial aid, guarantees
- IF - credit management
- IG - Reunification Law and Open Property Issues
Division II for Fiscal Policy and Budget
Department II functions as the budget department and is responsible for drawing up and executing the state budget, including employment and human resources management. It therefore plans the Senate's financial policy.
Papers:
- II A - Fundamental issues of financial policy , financial strategies and federal-state financial relations
- II B - Budget, public accounting, budget, fee and contribution law, supervision of the state main treasury and matters relating to section 29
- II C - Matters of section 10 as well as the district budget and remuneration office for social services
- II D - District affairs, Section 11 and district budgets
- II E - Matters of the individual plans 01, 02, 05, 08, 15, 20, 21, 25, 29 and district budgets
- II F - Matters of the individual plans 07, 12, 13 as well as district budgets
- II G - Matters of the individual plans 03, 08, 09 and district budgets
- II LFU - Project Nationwide Claims Management for the Maintenance Advance Act
Department III for tax administration matters
The Senate Department for Finance, with its Department III, as the highest state finance authority, heads the Berlin tax administration. The department comprises seven sections.
Papers:
- III A - Fundamental issues, tax policy , international tax law, corporation tax , non-profit law, trade tax , conversion tax law
- III B - Income tax , wage tax , employee taxation procedures , church tax , housing construction bonus, asset accumulation by employees, interest information regulation, investment tax law
- III C - Sales tax , customs duties , excise taxes
- III D - real estate tax , inheritance and gift tax , valuation, municipal taxes , casino tax , special traffic taxes
- III E - Tax Code, Tax Court Code, Collection, Enforcement
- III F - Audit services, tax investigations , criminal tax law , tax advisory law
- III G - Controlling and organization of the Berlin tax administration
- III H - Automation in the Berlin tax administration
- III K - career regulatory authority for tax administration, job management, personnel management, finance school for the Berlin tax offices
Department IV for national staff
Department IV for national personnel bundles the responsibilities for the national personnel policy issues that are part of the Senate Administration.
Papers:
- IV A - national staff
- IV B - Collective bargaining law and employee law, supplementary pension and wage tax and social security law
- IV C - Personnel Development and Demographic Management
- IV D - Public Service Law
- PStat - Personnel statistics center
Department VD for administrative management and services
The VD department is responsible for other personnel, organizational and legal matters.
Papers:
- VD A - inheritance, self-insurance, recourse
- VD B - central services: e-government and communication, service operations, state equalization office
- VD C - HR services: HR control center, staff budget, HR management
- VD D - development and financial services: audit berufundfamilie, organizational and personnel development, health management , occupational safety , advanced training , employee representation, budget, departmental controlling, reporting
- Legal Office
WG resource management
The Senate Department for Finance heads the Resource Control Working Group, which has followed the Growing City Working Group. This body discusses the number of additional positions and the personnel policy for the Berlin districts.
Members
The resource management group has 5 members:
- Tempelhof-Schöneberg district
- Marzahn-Hellersdorf district
- Mitte district
- Reinickendorf district
- Spandau district
reporting
Reporting takes place regularly via the publications of the Senate Department for Finance.
Berlin's finance senators since 1951
Senator | Political party | Start of office | End of office |
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Friedrich Haas | CDU | February 1, 1951 | 2nd July 1958 |
August Weltzien | independent | 2nd July 1958 | January 15, 1959 |
Joachim Wolff | CDU | January 15, 1959 | March 11, 1963 |
Hans-Günter Hoppe | FDP | March 11, 1963 | April 6, 1967 |
Heinz Striek | SPD | April 6, 1967 | April 14, 1975 |
Klaus Riebschläger | SPD | April 25, 1975 | January 9, 1981 |
Konrad Porzner | SPD | January 23, 1981 | June 11, 1981 |
Gerhard Kunz | CDU | June 11, 1981 | April 18, 1985 |
Günter Rexrodt | FDP | April 18, 1985 | March 16, 1989 |
Norbert Meisner | SPD | March 16, 1989 | January 24, 1991 |
Elmar Pieroth | CDU | January 24, 1991 | January 25, 1996 |
Annette Fugmann-Heesing | SPD | January 25, 1996 | December 9, 1999 |
Peter Kurth | CDU | December 9, 1999 | June 16, 2001 |
Christiane Krajewski | SPD | June 16, 2001 | January 17, 2002 |
Thilo Sarrazin | SPD | January 17, 2002 | May 1, 2009 |
Ulrich Nussbaum | independent | May 1, 2009 | December 11, 2014 |
Matthias Kollatz | SPD | December 11, 2014 | in office |
See also
Web links
- Official website of the Berlin Senate Department for Finance
- Career portal of the Berlin administration
- Job advertisements from the Berlin administration
- Job portal of the Berlin administration
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management and organization of the Senate Department for Finance , accessed on October 31, 2018
- ^ Organization chart of the financial administration of the Berlin Senate (PDF) accessed on May 10, 2017
- ↑ Management and organization of the financial administration of the Berlin Senate , accessed on May 10, 2017
- ^ The departments of the financial administration of the Berlin Senate , accessed on May 10, 2017
- ^ The departments of the financial administration of the Berlin Senate , accessed on May 10, 2017
- ↑ Human Resources Action Program 2017/2018 (PDF) accessed on May 13, 2019
- ↑ Small request from the FDP - accessed on May 13, 2019
- ↑ Human Resources Action Program 2018/2019 (PDF) accessed on May 13, 2019