During the spring of 2006, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducted a review of environmental taxes that formed the basis of a report ‘Review of Environmental Taxes in the UK Environmental Accounts’. The report was recently submitted to its co-funder Eurostat and will be published shortly.
Incorporating latest National Accounts Blue Book 2006 data, this article summarises the main findings of the review. It contains an assessment of current and potential environmental taxes, including the treatment of emissions trading schemes, the results of a new analysis of the main sources of environmental taxes, incorporating a time series from 1993 to 2003, and a comparison of UK environmental tax revenues with member states of the EU15.
Published in web format: 10 October 2006 at 9:30 am
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