Distribution of environmental taxes in Europe by tax payers in 2007 - Issue number 67/2010 - Products Statistics in Focus

In many European countries, households are the main contributors to the energy and transport tax revenue

This publication deals with environmentally related taxes (for convenience simply called environmental tax) in European countries for the year 2007. An environmental tax is defined as a tax whose tax base is a physical unit (or a proxy of it) of something that has a proven specific negative impact on the environment. The analysis focuses on environmental taxes in a breakdown by three categories (energy taxes, transport taxes, pollution/resource taxes), as well as on a detailed breakdown by the payers of these taxes (business sector, public sector, households as consumers and not-allocated).