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Published: 7 September 2017

Accrual of environmental taxes was over EUR 6 billion in 2015

Environmental taxes grew by 2.8 per cent year-on-year to EUR 6.1 billion. Especially taxes directed to households grew, up by slightly over seven per cent from the year before. Households’ share of all paid environmental taxes is nearly one half. The share of environmental taxes in Finland’s total tax revenue is around seven per cent, which is close to the European average.

Environmental taxes by industry and tax type in 2015, EUR million

The increase was most significant for energy taxes, which grew by 4.2 per cent year-on-year to EUR 4.1 billion. The growth in energy taxes was primarily directed to households, whose paid energy taxes increased by nearly 17 per cent from the year before. The growth was mainly caused by increases in taxes on fuels and electricity. The amount of energy taxes paid by manufacturing and energy supply, in turn, fell by around ten per cent from the previous year.

Emission taxes fell slightly over 13 per cent from 2014 and were EUR 74.5 million. The reason for the fall was the decrease in the accrual of waste tax, which was caused by increased incineration of municipal waste. Transport taxes remained on level with the year before.

Environmental taxes by industry and tax type in 2015, EUR million

Industries	Energy taxes	Transport taxes	Emissions taxes	Resource taxes	Environmental taxes total
Agriculture, fishing and hunting	58.8	19.4	0.0	. 1)	78.2
Forestry	35.3	4.7	0.3	.	40.3
Mining and quarrying	18.0	2.2	0.1	.	20.3
Food industry	16.1	2.0	0.0	.	18.1
Forest industry	44.0	2.3	0.4	.	46.7
Oil refining and manufacture of chemicals	141.4	1.3	24.6	.	167.3
Manufacture of basic metals and metal products	53.6	3.8	0.0	.	57.4
Other manufacturing	38.0	11.7	0.2	.	49.9
Energy supply	272.3	30.6	0.0	.	302.9
Water supply and waste management	36.3	13.8	32.0	.	82.1
Construction	144.6	42.0	0.1	.	186.7
Trade	107.6	54.6	0.1	.	162.3
Land transport and transport via pipelines	576.2	91.2	0.6	.	668.0
Water transport	109.9	0.2	0.0	.	110.1
Air transport	44.7	0.8	0.0	.	45.5
Support activities for transportation, post	95.0	4.6	0.2	.	99.8
Real estate activities	205.0	24.8	0.1	.	229.9
Other service activities and administration	492.3	224.0	2.5	.	718.8
Households	1 631.1	1 314.7	13.3	23.0	2 982.1
TOTAL	4 120.2	1 848.7	74.5	23.0	6 066.4

1) Magnitude nil

Environmental taxes are comprised of energy taxes, transport taxes, emission taxes and resource taxes. The majority of environmental taxes are energy taxes on electricity and fuels. One-third of environmental taxes are transport taxes levied from different kinds of vehicles. The majority of emission taxes is waste tax. Taxes paid on carbon dioxide emissions are included in energy taxes. Licence fees for hunting and fishing are resource taxes in Finland.

In the latest release, the data for the two previous years have been revised due to revisions in the source data.

Source: Environmental taxes 2015, by industry, Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Juuso Peltola 029 551 2330, ymparistotilinpito@stat.fi

Director in charge: Ville Vertanen

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• Appendix table 1. Total environmental taxes by industry 2008-2015, EUR million (7.9.2017)
• Appendix table 2. Energy taxes by industry 2008-2015, EUR million (7.9.2017)
• Appendix table 3. Transport taxes by industry 2008-2015, EUR million (7.9.2017)
• Appendix table 4. Emission taxes by industry 2008-2015, EUR million (7.9.2017)
• Appendix table 5. Resource taxes by industry 2008-2015, EUR million (7.9.2017)

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Updated 7.9.2017