Ministry of Finance (Palestine) explained

Finance Ministry of the Palestinian Authority
Jurisdiction:	Palestinian National Authority
Headquarters:	Ramallah, Palestine
Minister1 Name:	Shoukry Bishara
Minister1 Pfo:	Finance Minister

The Finance Minister of the Palestinian Authority is the head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) branch that is in charge of finance. The minister deals with launching audits, collecting tax from Palestinian businesses and overseeing financial aid directed to the PNA. Shukri Bishara is the current Finance Minister.

In April 2007, it was reported that that branch was not receiving satisfactory amounts of money. It was estimated that the PNA gained only $40 million, while $160 million was the amount required.^[1]

Functions

The Finance Minister is in charge of

• Controlling financial activities of the PNA and its expenditure.
• Supervising, studying and organizing monetary funds and the economic and political analysis of financial aid directed towards the PNA.
• Supervising and controlling the private capital funds of the PNA.
• Providing the money needed for facing the government's expenditures.
• Paying the salaries of government employees.
• Managing and settling employee salaries and retirement of civil administration and compensation in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.
• Scrutinizing and overseeing all financial transactions, including accounting principles adopted legally and that follow the principles of the Ministry for accountability and transparency during all stages of its work.
• Monitoring the implementation of the provisions of financial legislation in force.^[2]

Finance ministers

	Name	Party	Time
1		Fatah	July 1994-June 2002
2	Salam Fayyad	Independent	June 2002-November 2005
3	Ahmad Qurei (interim)	Fatah	November 2005-March 2006
4	Omar Abd al-Razaq	Hamas	March 2006-June 2006
5	Yousef Rizqa (interim)	Hamas	June 2006-January 2007
6	Samir Abu Eisheh (interim)	Hamas	January 2007-March 2007
7	Salam Fayyad	Third Way	March 2007-May 2012
8	Nabeel Kassis	Independent	May 2012-March 2013
9	Shoukry Bishara	Independent	June 2013-present
10	Ziyad al-Thatha (Part of Ismail Haniyeh's cabinet, which began de facto control over the Gaza Strip in June 2007)	Hamas	June 2007 - September 2012
11	Ziyad al-Thatha (Part of second Hamas cabinet in Gaza Strip)	Hamas	September 2012 - present

See also

• Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
• Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
• Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: PA Finance Minister to visit Brussels, discuss resumption of EU aid. 2007-11-10. 2007. Haaretz.
2. http://www.mof.gov.ps/?stat=4 Functions and powers