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{{Infobox official post
| post = Minister of Action and Public Accounts
| native_name = ''{{lang|fr|Ministre de l'Action et des Comptes publics}}''
| insignia =
| insigniasize =
| insigniacaption =
| image = Thomas Cazenave - Candidat LREM aux élections municipales de Bordeaux en 2020.jpg
| incumbent = [[Thomas Cazenave]]
| incumbentsince = 20 July 2023
| style = Mister the Minister
| member_of = [[Government of France|Council of Ministers]]
| reports_to = [[President of France|President of the Republic]]<br />and to [[French Parliament|Parliament]]
| residence = [[Bercy]]
| seat = [[Paris]], [[France]]
| appointer = [[President of France|President of the Republic]]
| termlength = No fixed term
| termlength_qualified = Remains in office while commanding the confidence of the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]] and the [[President of France|President of the Republic]]
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of France|Constitution of 4 October 1958]]
| precursor = The title of "Minister of Finance" has existed since 1518 in the Ancien Régime
| formation = 23 July 1958
| first = [[Antoine Pinay]]
| salary = €9,940 per month
| website = {{URL|http://www.economie.gouv.fr/}}
}}
The '''Ministry of Public Action and Accounts''' ([[French language|French]]: ''Ministère de l'Action et des Comptes publics'') is a ministry of the [[Government of France]]. It was created by President [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] in 2007, when he split the Ministry of Finance and the Economy into the '''Ministry of Budget, Public Accounts and Civil Administration''' and the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Employment. [[Éric Woerth]] became the first Budget Minister to have a dedicated ministry since Sarkozy himself in 1995.
==History==
[[File:Ministère chargé des Comptes Publics.svg|thumb|left|Official logo]]
Woerth was entrusted with several missions and reforms to be led. The main reforms were to modify the statute of civil servants, to reduce the number of civil servants, to merge the taxation direction and the public compatibility services, to lead a [[French General Review of Public Policies|general review of public policies]], to reduce the budget deficit, to elaborate a new legislation on online bets.
Budget Minister [[Jérôme Cahuzac]] was reattached to the [[Ministry of the Economy and Finance (France)|Ministry of the Economy and Finance]] in 2012; the ministry took its current name and was reestablished again in 2017. It is housed at [[Bercy]], sharing the Economy and Finance Ministry's building on the [[Seine]].
In the [[Castex government|government]] of [[Prime Minister of France|Prime Minister]] [[Jean Castex]], Minister for Public Accounts was a junior title held by [[Olivier Dussopt]]. Although the officeholder was present at the Council of Ministers, he was administratively attached to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery, [[Bruno Le Maire]].
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==Tasks==
The Minister of Public Action and Accounts supervises:
* the preparation of the finance law ([[budget]]) with the help of his colleague the Minister of the Economy and Finance in taxation ruling matters, he requires the Board for Tax Policy of the ''Direction générale des Finances Publiques''), which is then submitted to [[French Parliament|Parliament]] for [[law|amendment]] and final approval;
* the [[taxation]] system;
* the accounting of the State and all public bodies (by the ''[[Trésor public|Direction générale des Finances Publiques]]'').<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.budget.gouv.fr/ |title=Ministère du Budget, des Comptes publics et de la Réforme de l'État |website=www.budget.gouv.fr |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712035129/http://www.budget.gouv.fr/ |archive-date=12 July 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
The [[Taxation in France|French taxation]] system is supervised by two separate board:
* the ''Direction générale des Finances Publiques'' for tax evaluation and collecting taxes such as [[Value-added tax|VAT]] or [[corporate tax]], [[income tax]] or local taxes based on estate locative value.
* the ''[[Direction générale des douanes et des droits indirects]]'' for custom, for tax on petrol and fuels and for [[indirect tax|special indirect taxes]] such as taxes on alcohol, tobacco);
The taxation [[information system]] are being modernised by the so-called [[Copernic tax project]].
By delegation of the Prime Minister, he supervises also the Public Services (essentially statutes and salaries of the State, local and hospital Public Services) and the modernisation of the State (including computing means).
He is responsible with their colleagues for Health, Youth and Sport and for Labour, Labour Relations and Solidarity of the equilibrium of social accounts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.minefi.gouv.fr/directions_services/sircom/ministere/organigramme_mbcpfp.htm |title=Budget.gouv.fr : Organigramme |website=www.minefi.gouv.fr |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929104359/http://www.minefi.gouv.fr/directions_services/sircom/ministere/organigramme_mbcpfp.htm |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[List of budget ministers of France]]
==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.budget.gouv.fr/}}
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