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Total environmental taxes in Sweden 2000-2010

Current prices, SEK million

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009*	2010*
Total	62 660	65 643	69 760	72 481	74 486	78 375	80 054	82 263	86 291	87 457	90 545
Energy tax	52 838	55 987	59 552	61 983	63 810	65 580	66 615	67 634	69 065	70 423	73 573
Energy tax (total)	38 332	36 421	37 189	36 454	34 948	37 412	38 024	38 288	38 387	40 099	41 209
of which: fuel tax	27 032	23 858	23 214	20 797	17 880	19 461	19 276	19 457	19 590	20 224	20 148
electricity tax	11 300	12 564	13 975	15 657	17 069	17 951	18 748	18 831	18 797	19 875	21 061
Other product taxes on electricity	2 345	2 592	2 433	2 288	2 372	2 483	3 846	4 219	4 908	4 240	5 030
of which: hyrdroelectic power tax	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
nuclear power tax ^[1]	1 708	1 862	1 789	1 829	1 863	1 794	3 198	3 238	3 976	3 394	3 997
fees/tax for reduction and storage	637	730	644	459	509	689	648	981	932	846	1 033
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
Tax on pollution	1 838	1 670	1 692	1 708	1 416	1 355	1 188	1 129	925	491	419
Sulphur tax	89	101	156	199	131	121	81	56	62	39	48
Tax on insecticides	58	59	44	67	61	77	81	81	89	71	85
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	261
Environmental protection fee ^[2]	116	119	109	109	108	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Fee to the battery fund	133	123	121	101	84	93	85	78	76	14	25
Tax on transportation	7 859	7 864	8 399	8 596	9 058	11 240	11 997	13 239	16 047	16 376	16 400
Vehicle tax	6 847	7 014	7 428	7 686	8 062	10 247	10 520	10 349	11 308	11 682	11 875
Sales tax on motor vehicles	194	‑22	15	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Congestion tax	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	489	345	687	785	799
Kilometre tax	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Fee to the vehicle scrap fund	253	226	243	269	276	271	270	155	0	0
Road charges	565	646	713	641	720	722	718	748	782	891	778
Tax on road traffic insurance	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑	1 642	3 270	3 018	2 948
Tax on natural resources	125	123	117	193	202	200	254	261	254	167	153
Natural gravel tax	125	123	117	193	202	200	254	261	254	167	153
Per cent of GDP in Sweden	2.8%	2.8%	2.9%	2.8%	2.8%	2.8%	2.7%	2.6%	2.7%	2.8%	2.7%
Per cent of total taxes in Sweden ^[3]	7.7%	8.3%	9.0%	9.0%	8.7%	8.6%	8.3%	8.3%	8.9%	9.5%
Env. taxes in EU as per cent of total GDP in EU	2.7 %	2.7 %	2.7 %	2.7 %	2.66 %	2.6 %	2.6 %	2.46 %	2.4 %
Env. taxes in EU as per cent of total taxes and social contributions in EU	6.8 %	6.7 %	6.9 %	6.9 %	6.8 %	6.6 %	6.4 %	6.2 %	6.1 %

* 2009 and 2010 = preliminary data

1) The tax on electric power ceased July 1, 2000 and was replaced with a tax on nuclear reactor thermal power (which is also included as a product tax on electricity in the table).

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

3) Only Government taxes and social insurance (not municipalities).

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.

Data for 2009 will be published in spring 2012.

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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Last updated 2011-07-01