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Government spent €4.4 billion on energy transition in 2024
The government spent 4.4 billion euros on promoting energy saving and renewable energy in 2024
Environmental taxes and fees, revenues by taxpayer; national accounts
environmental taxes, environmental fees, waste tax, fuel tax, excise duty tax payers, tax revenues, sewerage charges, mobility tax
A greening economy, but not in all areas
The Dutch economy is growing increasingly green. Companies are implementing cleaner production processes and are using relatively fewer raw materials.
Households pay two-thirds of environmental taxes
The polluter-pay principle does not always apply.
Richer households cause more greenhouse gas emissions
The production of goods and services bought by households cause greenhouse gas emissions. On average a household in the Netherlands causes over 22 tons of CO2 equivalents in emissions.
Proceeds government-imposed taxes again higher
In 2007, government-imposed tax proceeds amounted to 133 billion euro, an increase by over 8 billion euro relative to one year ago. Government-imposed tax proceeds have shown a distinctly upward...