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Environmental accounting provides information and data from a wide variety of areas. The benefit and success of environmental accounting also depends largely on the fact that this information and data can be used in other areas of application and can therefore form the basis for environmentally relevant decisions.

Environmental taxes in Austria 2000 - 2022

Energy and transport taxes account for the largest share of environmental taxes in Austria. Overall, there was a continuous increase in the absolute numbers of eco-taxes from 2000 to 2019. From 2020 onwards, no linear development of eco-taxes can bei observed. The comparatively low energy tax values in the years 2020 to 2022 can be attributed to the lower energy consumption during the corona pandemic or the energy saving measures in the wake of the Ukraine conflict. The share of eco-taxes in GDP was relatively stable at around 2.5% in the years before the corona pandemic. This share has fallen since 2020 and will be just under 2% in 2022. After a brief increase in 2017 (6.1%), the share of eco-taxes in other taxes and social contributions fell continuously to around 4.7% until 2022.

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