The Ministry of Finance is a federal agency under the executive branch responsible for drafting and implementing national policy and legal regulation for:

• the budget, taxation, insurance, currency, banking, government spending, auditing, accounting and financial statements
• reworking and conversion of precious metals and gem stones
• customs duties
• defining customs values of commodities and transportation means
• labour pension financial investment programmes
• regulation of lotteries, gambling and betting
• issue and trade in secured printed matter
• civil service financing
• combating money laundering and the sponsoring of terrorism.