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Umwelt-Indikator

Indicator: Taxes related to the environment

A graph shows the development of environmental taxes for 1995 (40.2 billion euros) to 2022 (66.5 billion euros) and their share of total tax revenues in the public budgets.

The most important environmental taxes are energy, motor vehicle and revenues from national emissions trading.In 2022, environmental taxes amounted to a total of 66.5 billion euros.The share of total taxes has been on a downward trend since 2005 and now stands at 7.4 %. read more

The Umweltbundesamt

For our environment

The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.

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