The collection of “green” taxes amounted to 22.880 million euros in 2023, which represents an increase of 10.7% compared to the previous year.
Concerning the total taxes of the Spanish economy, environmental ones represented 6.5%against 6.2% in 2022, according to the Environmental Accounts of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
According to the INE and in accordance with the nomenclature of the national accounting system, taxes on products, excluding VAT and taxes on imports, totaled 16,064 million in 2023, or 6.6% more than the previous year.
Energy, transport and pollution
The National Institute of Statistics recalls that environmental or green taxes are grouped into three categories: taxes on energy (which represented 77.5% of the total in 2023), taxes on transportation (13.7%) and taxes on pollution and resources (8.8%).
Between 2023 and 2022, taxes on pollution and resources increased by 87.7%energy taxes 7.0% and transport taxes 3.5%.
For their part, the itaxes on production They reached 5 billion (32.8% more than in 2022) and current environmental taxes amount to 1.816 million (1.0% less).
Pollution and plastic
Environmental taxes accounted for 38.1% of total product taxes, excluding VAT and import taxes.
In addition, current environmental taxes represented 34.7% of the total and taxes on production, 18.4%. Within the product taxestaxes on pollution and resources are those with the strongest growth, mainly due to the entry into force of the special tax on non-reusable plastic packaging, reaching a figure of 596 million euros in 2023.
No more green taxes on houses
THE households paid 42.8% of total environmental taxes in 2023 and, by type, they paid 72.7% of transport taxes and 42.0% of energy taxes.
For their part, the branches of activity paid 57.2% of the total ecotaxes. By type they paid 96% of pollution and resource taxes, and 58.0% of energy taxes.
The branches of activity which they paid more green taxes in 2023, these were manufacturing (20.4% of the total) and transport and warehousing (14.6%).
Industry and agriculture
On the contrary, those who paid the least were extractive industries And agriculture, cattle breedingforestry and fishing (with 0.5% and 1.0% of the total respectively).
Concerning the methodology used by the INE, Environmental Accounting (CMA) aims to “integration of environmental information coherently in the central system of national accounts.
Sustained growth
The INE adds that the accounts “include a set of satellite accounts, transmitted annually, prepared using accounting formats applicable to different sectoral and territorial areas, with a strong presence of physical data. They show the interactions between the economy, households and environmental factors“.
The environmental tax account presents the distribution by branches of activity And household sector as final consumertaxes whose tax base consists of a physical unit (or similar) of a material having a proven and specific negative impact on the environment.
Regarding the historical series of environmental taxes, the INE shows in a graph that over the last decade, the variations range from 19,661 in 2013 to 22,800 million euros in 2023, a sustained increase., remove the pandemic periodmore than 3 billion euros in ten years.
