Environmental Taxes

These are subdivided into four types of taxes: taxes on energy (including fuel for transport); taxes on transport (excluding fuel for transport), taxes on pollution and taxes on resources. Sources: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2020), Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, OECD.Stat https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ERTR. Accessed on 2023-06-17; International Monetary Fund (IMF), Statistics Department (Government Finance Division) Questionnaire. Category: Mitigation Data series: Environmental Taxes Taxes on Energy (including fuel for transport) Taxes on Pollution Taxes on Resources Taxes on Transport (excluding fuel for transport) Methodology: Environmental taxes are a subset of taxes, as defined in the 2008 System of National Accounts and the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, whose tax base is a physical unit (or a proxy of it) of something that has a proven, specific, negative impact on the environment.