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German air passenger taxes

Umwelt-Indikator

Indicator: Taxes related to the environment

A graph shows the development of environmental taxes for the year 1995 (39.9 billion euros), the year 2000, and the period 2005 to 2023 (69.5 billion euros, preliminary data) as well as their share of total tax revenues in the public budgets.

In 2023, environmental taxes amounted to a total of 69.5 billion euros.Their share of total taxes has been on a downward trend since 2005 and now stands at 7.6 %.The highest-yielding environmental taxes are the energy tax, the motor vehicle tax. and revenue from national emissions trading. read more

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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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