Environmentally related tax revenues
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Statistics Canada began publishing the Environmental Tax Statistics product (ETS) in 2023, with the time series extending back to 2010.
The ETS is one of the elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Central Framework. This product records, in monetary units, government revenues generated from environmental tax paid by industries, government institutions, non-profit organizations and households, and received from gross fixed capital formation. These taxes include energy taxes, carbon taxes, emission trading permits, transportation taxes, pollution taxes and natural resources taxes.
Economic instruments for pollution control and natural resource management, including environment taxes, are an important policy tool used by government. Data from the ETS is used predominantly by policy analysts and by both industry and academic researchers. Data may be used to monitor expenditure trends within industry groups or provinces for the purpose of developing business or research and development strategies, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of policy.
For full details on the international standards for environmental tax accounting, see Chapter 4 of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting: Central Framework (SEEA-CF).
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