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Environmental taxes by economic activity (NACE Rev. 2) (env_ac_taxind2)

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Compiling agency: HELLENIC STATISTICAL AUTHORITY (ELSTAT)

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Data presents environmental tax revenue by tax category (energy, transport, pollution, and resource taxes) broken down by economic activity (taxpayer). Breakdown follows the NACE Rev.2 classification for industries and services sectors extended to cover taxes paid by households and non-residents.

29 April 2025

The environmental tax statistics are compiled according to Eurostat’s 2013 “Environmental taxes - a statistical guide”. Environmental tax is defined as “A tax whose tax base is a physical unit (or a proxy of a physical unit) of something that has a proven, specific negative impact on the environment, and which is identified in ESA2010 as a tax”.

Environmental tax statistics are part of European environmental economic accounts, which constitute satellite accounts to national accounts. Thus, environmental tax statistics follows ESA2010 definition of “taxes”. Consequently, only payments that are identified as taxes in the national accounts can be reported as environmental taxes whereas other types of payments to government are excluded from the scope of the data collection. Compliance with the tax definition of the national accounts improves international comparability of the statistics, and is in line with the guidance, concepts, and definitions of the System of environmental and economic accounting (SEEA).

Data refer to environmental taxes paid by the different economic agents and collected by the government.

The target population are all production sectors by NACE Rev.2, households as consumers and non-residents.

At national level: data refer to Greece total.

Data disseminated via the 2025 questionnaire corresponds to reference year 2023.

Data in the tables of environmental taxes derive from a combination of primary and administrative sources, therefore it is difficult to make a general evaluation of the data.

Overall accuracy relies, to a great extent, on the quality and completeness of the administrative data, requirements which must be met by the agencies that provide these data.

Million Euros (M€)

Once collected, the data undergo logical checks, they are processed by the competent sections of ELSTAT and then the relevant tables are compiled for every tax category.

Energy taxes: D2122 C01, D214A C02, D214A C07, D214A C08, D214A C09, D214H C07, D214H C08, D29F C01 and D29F C02 (NA division, EUTL)

Transport taxes: D214A C01, D214D C01, D29E C03, D59D C01 (AADE, ELSTAT)

Pollution taxes: D214A C10, D29F C03 (NA division)

In 18.1.1., energy, transport and pollution taxes are in more detail with the relevant ESA code and their sources.

Data are disseminated annually.

See 14.1.1. and 14.1.2.

Not applicable.

See 15.2.1. and 15.2.2.