Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels
This publication provides preliminary, quantitative estimates of direct budgetary
support and tax expenditures supporting the production or consumption of fossil fuels
in selected OECD member countries. The information has been compiled as part of the
OECD’s programme of work to develop a better understanding of environmentally harmful
subsidies (EHS). It has been undertaken as an exercise in transparency, and to inform
the international dialogue on fossil-fuel subsidy reform. It is also intended to inform
the ongoing efforts of G20 nations to reform fossil-fuel subsidies.
For each of the 24 OECD countries covered, the Inventory provides a succinct summary
of its energy economy, and of the budgetary and tax-related measures provided at the
central-government level (and, in the case of federal countries, for selected sub-national
units of government) relating to fossil-fuel production or consumption.
Many measures listed in this inventory are relative preferences within a particular
country’s tax system rather than absolute support that can be readily compared across
countries, and for that reason no national totals are provided.
Published on January 02, 2012