U.S. Department of the Treasury

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is the federal executive department responsible for managing federal finances, collecting taxes, producing coin and currency, and managing the public debt. Its headquarters are at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.

Identity

• Name: U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Entity type: federal executive department of the United States government
• Headquarters: Washington, D.C. (not New York)
• Category: Government and public sector

Role and organization

Treasury’s Role of the Treasury page lists these basic functions: managing federal finances; collecting taxes, duties and monies due to the United States and paying its bills; currency and coinage; managing government accounts and the public debt; supervising national banks and thrift institutions; advising on domestic and international financial, monetary, economic, trade and tax policy; enforcing federal finance and tax laws; and investigating and prosecuting tax evaders, counterfeiters and forgers. The page also describes economic sanctions as part of its national security work.

The department has two components: the Departmental Offices, which formulate policy and manage the department as a whole, and the operating bureaus, which carry out specific operations. The same page says the bureaus make up 98% of the Treasury workforce. Bureaus named on the Treasury contact page include the Internal Revenue Service, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the United States Mint, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau and the CDFI Fund.

Contacting the right office

The phone number below is the department’s general information line. The official contact page also lists separate channels for tax filing and IRS assistance, TreasuryDirect login help, sanctions questions to the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Mint orders, damaged currency claims, Freedom of Information Act requests, and fraud reporting. Follow the links on that page for each of these topics.

How to verify this agency yourself

• Treasury official contact page
• Role of the Treasury (official)
• USAGov entry for the Department of the Treasury

Location and contact

• Headquarters (official contact page): 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20220
• General information (official contact page): +1 202-622-2000. Callers who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability can dial 7-1-1 for relay services, per the same page.
• Website: home.treasury.gov

Last verified: November 6, 2026. Sources: home.treasury.gov contact page and Role of the Treasury page; USAGov agency directory.

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