NL: Environmental taxes nearly 24 billion euro in 2014

In 2014, the Dutch government collected 23.9 billion euros in environmental taxes and levies. Yearly revenues have ranged between 23 and 24 billion euros over the past few years, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports. Households paid 66 eurocents out of each euro of these revenues, with the remaining 34 eurocents paid by the private sector.
Environmental taxes and levies made up 16.2% of total tax revenues.
The Dutch government collected 19.4 billion euros in environmental taxes and 4.5 billion in environmental levies. Environmental levies are used to finance specific environmental targets such as waste collection levies and refuse collection fees (Press Release CBS, 2 September 2015).
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