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Environmental tax revenue - Years 2008-2019

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On 12 November 2020, Istat releases the 2008-2019 time series on environmental tax revenue in Italy on I.Stat data warehouse – ‘National accounts’ theme, ‘Environmental accounts/Environmental tax revenue’ sub-theme.
Environmental taxes, as part of the more general group of taxes, are compulsory payments to the government, where the benefits provided to the taxpayer are not directly linked to the payment. A tax is defined as an environmental tax if its base is ‘a physical unit (or a proxy of it) of something that has a proven, specific negative impact on the environment’. This approach, consistent with the international guidelines on environmental taxes, assigns primary importance to the tax base in deciding whether a tax is environmental or not, while the purpose stated by the tax legislator is not relevant. Hence, environmental taxes include both instruments designed with an environmental motivation and instruments with a different stated purpose.

Data on environmental tax revenue are provided for four categories – energy, transport, pollution, resources – and taxpayer: economic activities (according to the hierarchical classification of economic activities, NACE Rev.2), households and non-residents.

The time series is consistent with the ‘General Government aggregates and Accounts’ released in October 2020 on I.Stat – ‘National accounts’ theme, General Government statistics/Annual account/Taxes and social contributions by subsector’ sub-theme; General Government data are the main source for environmental tax revenue estimates.

For information
Final demand, labour and capital input, environmental accounts Division

Angelica Tudini
tel. 06 4673.3136
tudini@istat.it

Emanuela Recchini
tel. 06 4673.3199
recchini@istat.it

Reference period: Years 2008-2019

Date of Issue: 12 November 2020