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Fri, 11 Sep, 2015 12:05:46 AM
FTimes Report, Sep 11
 
Environmental taxes by industry and tax type in 2013, EUR million. Source: Environmental taxes 2013, by industry, Statistics Finland.
The total sum of environmental taxes in 2013 was EUR 5.9 billion, up from the year before by 0.2 per cent, according to Statistics Finland’s data.
 
Households paid EUR 2.6 million of environmental taxes, that is, a share of nearly 47 per cent. Other major payers were manufacturing and service activities, particularly transport and storage.
 
Taxation was mainly directed to production and use of energy, and vehicles.
 
Emission taxes had a small share of environmental taxes.
 
Environmental taxes paid by manufacturing increased from the previous year by around eight per cent, while those paid by service activities declined by four per cent, which fully concerned the industry of transport and storage.
 
Environmental taxes paid by households remained on level with the previous year.
 
Environmental taxes accounted for around seven per cent of the entire tax revenue of the state, the data show.
 
The share is slightly higher than the average for EU countries.
 
Environmental taxes are comprised of energy taxes, transport taxes, emission taxes and resource taxes. Most of environmental taxes are energy taxes on electricity and fuels.
 
One-third of environmental taxes are transport taxes levied from different kinds of vehicles.  Taxes paid on carbon dioxide emissions are included in energy taxes.
 

Environmental taxes by industry and tax type in 2013, EUR million

 

Industry (TOL 2008) Energy
taxes   
Transport
taxes 
Emissions
taxes
Resource
taxes
Environmental
taxes total
Agriculture, fishing and hunting 58.8 18.9 0.0 1) 77.7
Forestry 35.9 4.4 0.2 - 40.4
Mining and quarrying 30.6 2.7 0.0 - 33.4
Food industry 18.5 1.8 0.0 - 20.3
Forest industry 49.6 2.2 0.4 - 52.1
Manufacture of basic metals and metal products 41.4 3.6 0.0 - 45.0
Other manufacturing 36.9 10.9 0.2 - 48.1
Energy supply 265.7 22.6 0.1 - 288.4
Water supply and waste management 40.5 7.0 56.0 - 103.5
Construction 141.0 39.7 0.1 - 180.8
Trade 119.2 61.1 0.3 - 180.5
Land transport and transport via pipelines 516.9 54.4 0.6 - 571.9
Water transport 104.4 0.2 0.0 - 104.7
Air transport 31.1 1.6 0.0 - 32.7
Support activities for transportation, post 75.3 6.1 0.3 - 81.8
Real estate activities 259.2 26.9 0.1 - 286.2
Other service activities and administration 454.5 235.0 3.0 - 692.5
Households 1251.8 1299.7 12.8 23.0 2587.2
TOTAL 3985.7 1799.8 101.9 23.0 5910.5
1) Magnitude nil

Source: Environmental taxes 2013, by industry, Statistics Finland.

 
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