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Environment Taxes 2022

Key Findings

Carbon taxes increased by 22% in 2022

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CSO statistical publication, 27 June 2023, 11am

Key Findings

In 2022, €4.5 billion of environment-related taxes were collected.
Carbon taxes increased by 22% in 2022 compared with 2021 and amounted to €807 million.
Energy taxes, which include transport fuels, accounted for 61% of all environment-related taxes in 2022.
Transport taxes (including motor tax and vehicle registration tax) accounted for 39% of all environment-related taxes in 2022.
Environment-related taxes accounted for 4% of total taxes in 2022.

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (27 June 2023) published Environment Taxes 2022.

Commenting on the release Gerard Keogh, Statistician in the Environment and Climate Division, said: "Environment taxes were €4.4 billion in 2013 and rose to €5.2 billion in 2017. In 2021 environment taxes were €5.0 billion. There was a decrease of €0.5 billion in 2022 to €4.5 billion (see Table 1). The decrease was due to the introduction of a temporary reduction in excise duty on fuels in April.

As a percentage of total taxes, environment taxes were 9% in 2013 compared with 4% of total taxes in 2022.

Energy taxes in 2022 were €2.8 billion. Taxes on transport fuels (hydrocarbon oils) accounted for 54% of energy taxes while the combined Carbon tax, Carbon Credits and the Public Service Obligation (PSO) levy accounted for 41% of energy taxes. Carbon taxes increased by 22% to €807 million in 2022.

Transport taxes (mainly vehicle registration and motor taxes) were €1.7 billion with vehicle registration tax accounting for 45% of transport taxes.

Pollution and resource taxes were €18 million in 2022.

In 2013 estimated environment taxes levied on households were €2.8 billion (see Table 2), representing a 64% share of total environment taxes. In 2022 household environment taxes were €2.5 billion which represented a 56% share of total environment taxes.

Environment taxes levied on service industries were €1.4 billion in 2022, representing a 31% share of total environment taxes."

Editor's Note

An environment tax is defined by Regulation (EU) 691/2011 as:
"A tax whose tax base is a physical unit (or a proxy of a physical unit) of something that has a proven, specific negative impact on the environment, and which is identified in the European System of Accounts as a tax."

Tables and Graphs

X-axis label	Energy	Transport	Pollution and Resource
2013	2.72134076559478	1.664159	0.059366
2014	2.84019627	1.796148849	0.04756638892
2015	3.042883324	1.887131805	0.04722388498
2016	3.13525459166667	1.923950277	0.058281045
2017	3.25800358066667	1.928806368	0.045558533
2018	3.17604088633333	1.917106777	0.026156058
2019	3.015239845	1.986746811	0.018434423
2020	2.76786278166667	1.708160269	0.01100842579
2021	3.20291125833333	1.737181737	0.013175647
2022	2.76064875833333	1.74781838075	0.018253163

X-axis label	Agriculture	Industry	Services	Households
2013	0.057413887709329	0.415719433296679	1.13681235035062	2.83492009423815
2014	0.0571842039545935	0.463609839141335	1.1683041777618	2.99481328706227
2015	0.0807433482112744	0.47638352896145	1.27584955244761	3.14426258435967
2016	0.0740367158240026	0.543969387391382	1.38231756140633	3.11716224904495
2017	0.0773914463081641	0.595701076031711	1.51993925889354	3.03933670043325
2018	0.06962521650467	0.587203548934254	1.49181662862327	2.97065832727114
2019	0.0592294021682294	0.541336654832144	1.48836016892502	2.93149485307461
2020	0.0521271071797753	0.470471342839815	1.30965737018398	2.6547756562531
2021	0.0672849615301971	0.587780703035152	1.57012118954695	2.72808178822104
2022	0.0614153643787108	0.516916125370097	1.40593630262938	2.54245250970515

Table 1 Environment Taxes by Tax type, 2013-2022

Table 2 Environment Taxes by NACE Sector of Payee, 2013-2022

Table 3 Energy Taxes by NACE Sector of Payee, 2013-2022

Table 4 Transport Taxes by NACE Sector of Payee, 2013-2022

Table 5 Pollution and Resource Taxes by NACE Sector of Payee, 2013-2022

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Table 1 Environment Taxes by Tax type, 2013-2022
€m
Tax	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022¹
Total	4,445	4,684	4,977	5,117	5,232	5,119	5,020	4,487	4,953	4,527
Annual % change	6.5%	5.4%	6.3%	2.8%	2.2%	-2.2%	-1.9%	-10.6%	10.4%	-8.6%
% of total taxes	8.9%	8.6%	8.4%	8.2%	7.9%	7.2%	6.5%	6.2%	5.6%	4.3%

Energy taxes	2,721	2,840	3,043	3,135	3,258	3,176	3,015	2,768	3,203	2,761
Duty on light hydrocarbon oil products	854	810	771	725	679	596	568	424	417	359
Duty on other hydrocarbon oil products	1,182	1,234	1,350	1,454	1,554	1,559	1,597	1,381	1,509	1,142
Electricity tax	6	6	4	5	4	3	2	2	5	4
National Oil Reserves Agency levy	124	121	130	132	130	134	133	121	121	121
Carbon tax	387	386	419	434	435	430	435	503	659	807
Carbon credits	17	42	36	44	43	49	79	107	130	130
Public Service Obligation levy	151	242	333	342	412	406	201	231	361	198

Transport taxes	1,664	1,796	1,887	1,924	1,929	1,917	1,987	1,708	1,737	1,748
Vehicle registration tax	459	572	702	814	850	872	950	717	763	779
Air travel tax	34	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Car Test (NCT) Levy	21	34	40	38	37	37	47	32	43	43
Motor tax (business)	284	290	281	263	255	245	241	235	227	226
Motor tax (households)	853	869	843	789	766	736	723	705	681	677
Vehicle and driving licence expenses	13	20	20	20	21	26	26	20	23	23

Pollution and Resource taxes	59	48	47	58	46	26	18	11	13	18
Plastic bag levy	15	13	12	9	7	6	5	4	4	7
Landfill levy	43	34	34	48	37	19	12	7	8	10
Fisheries protection	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
¹Provisional

Table 5 Pollution and Resource Taxes by NACE Sector of Payee, 2013-2022
€m
NACE Rev. 2	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total pollution and resource taxes	59	48	47	58	46	26	18	11	13	18
Annual % change	-11.3%	-19.9%	-0.7%	23.4%	-21.8%	-42.6%	-29.5%	-40.3%	19.7%	38.5%

Agriculture, forestry and fishing (01-03)	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0

Industry (05-43)	8	7	7	8	6	3	1	0	0	1
Mining and quarrying (05-09)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food, beverages and tobacco (10-12)	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Textiles and pharmaceuticals (13-21)	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Plastic and non-metallic minerals (22-23)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Metals, machinery and equipment (24-33)	3	2	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0
Electricity and gas (35)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Water and waste (36-39)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Construction (41-43)	2	2	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0

Services (45-96)	11	9	9	13	8	16	7	4	5	7
Wholesale and retail trade (45-47)	2	2	1	1	1	5	2	1	2	2
Transport, postal and warehousing (49-53)	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Accommodation and food (55-56)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Information and computing (62-63)	1	1	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0
Rental and leasing (77)	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Public administration (84)	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	2	2	3
Other (58-61, 64-66, 68-75, 78-82, 85-88, 90-96)	5	4	4	5	5	5	2	1	1	2

Households and non-residents	40	31	30	37	32	7	10	6	7	11

Environment Taxes 2022

Key Findings

Carbon taxes increased by 22% in 2022

Key Findings

Statistician's Comment

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