The industry analysis of environmental taxes provides a breakdown of environmental taxes paid by UK businesses and households in 2001. The article contains a detailed explanation of the different types of environmental tax and the methodology used in compiling the breakdown.
The environmental taxes are broken own over four categories: taxes on energy, transport, pollution and resources. The breakdown is based on information contained in the Environmental Accounts energy datasets, the ONS publication Travel Trends and unpublished data from ONS Input-Output branch.