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Total environmental taxes in Sweden 2000-2011

Current prices, SEK million

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010*	2011*
Total	62 344	66 209	70 349	73 063	75 106	78 965	80 626	82 834	86 826	87 973	90 253	86 861
Energy tax	52 011	55 987	59 552	61 983	63 810	65 580	66 615	67 634	69 068	70 423	72 538	69 862
Energy tax on fuels	27 032	23 858	23 214	20 797	17 880	19 461	19 276	19 457	19 590	20 224	20 146	20 414
Electricity taxes ^[1]	11 937	13 294	14 619	16 116	17 578	18 640	19 396	19 812	19 732	20 720	21 061	20 227
Hydroelectic power tax	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Nuclear power tax (capacity) ^[2]	881	1 862	1 789	1 829	1 863	1 794	3 198	3 238	3 976	3 395	3 997	3 852
Carbon dioxide tax	12 162	16 973	19 930	23 241	26 490	25 685	24 745	25 127	25 770	26 084	27 334	25 369
Tax on certain substances	2 349	2 236	2 281	2 290	2 036	1 943	1 758	1 697	1 457	1 165	1 162	1 120
Sulphur tax	89	101	156	199	131	121	81	56	58	39	48	28
Tax on insecticides	58	59	44	67	61	77	81	81	89	72	86	86
Tax on commercial fertilizers	357	369	356	340	303	329	295	306	366	178	‑	‑
Tax on waste	1 085	899	906	892	729	735	646	608	332	189	289	204
Environmental protection fee ^[3]	116	119	109	109	108	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Fee to the battery fund	133	123	121	101	84	93	85	78	76	14	25	8
NOx fee	511	566	589	582	620	588	570	568	536	673	714	794
Tax on transportation	7 859	7 864	8 399	8 596	9 058	11 242	11 999	13 242	16 047	16 219	16 400	15 716
Vehicle tax	6 847	7 014	7 428	7 686	8 062	10 247	10 520	10 349	11 308	11 524	11 875	11 229
Sales tax on motor vehicles	194	‑22	15	‑	‑	2	2	3	‑	‑	‑	‑
Congestion tax	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	489	345	687	785	799	801
Kilometre tax	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Fee to the vehicle scrap fund	253	226	243	269	276	271	270	155	‑	‑	‑	‑
Road charges	565	646	713	641	720	722	718	748	782	891	778	779
Tax on road traffic insurance	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	1 642	3 270	3 019	2 948	2 907
Tax on natural resources	125	123	117	193	202	200	254	261	254	166	153	163
Natural gravel tax	125	123	117	193	202	200	254	261	254	166	153	163

Per cent of GDP in Sweden	2.8%	2.8%	2.9%	2.9%	2.8%	2.9%	2.7%	2.6%	2.7%	2.8%	2.7%	2.5%
Env. taxes in EU as per cent of total GDP in EU	2.7%	2.6%	2.6%	2.7%	2.6%	2.6%	2.5%	2.4%	2.3%	2.4%	2.37
Env. taxes in EU as per cent of total taxes and social contributions in EU	6.7%	6.7%	6.8%	6.8%	6.8%	6.5%	6.3%	6.1%	5.95	6.24	6.2%

* 2010 and 2011 = preliminary data.

1) The group Electricity taxes consist of the Energy tax on electricity, the nuclear electric power tax (ceased 1/7-2000) and the tax/fee on reduction and storage (nuclear). The last two have earlier been listed separatly as other product.

2) The nuclear power tax that existed 1993 to 1/7 - 2000 is included in the post Electricity taxes since it was a tax on the electric power. It ceased on July 1, 2000 and was replaced with this tax on nuclear reactor thermal power (that is the capacity, a form of tax on property).

3) Exist also after 2004 but is now registered in a way so it does not count as a tax in the system.

Source: SCB

Comments

There may be additional taxes which should be included as environmental taxes than those included in the table. The table may be revised in the future.

Definitions

The used definition of an environmental tax was elaborated by Eurostat and OECD and makes comparable studies possible between different countries:

"...it has been chosen to single out the tax base that seem to have a particular environmental relevance, and to consider all taxes levied on these tax bases as environmentally related regardless of motives behind their introduction, their names etc."

According to the definition it is the tax base that determines whether or not the tax is an environmental tax.

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System of Environmental and Economic Accounts

Total environmental taxes in Sweden 2000-2011

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