Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Oecd

Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Oecd

This book 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 program of work undertaken to develop a better understanding of environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS), and to inform the ongoing efforts of G20 nations to reform fossil-fuel subsidies.

For each of the twenty-four OECD countries covered, the inventory provides a succinct summary of its energy economy and of the budgetary and tax-related measures provide at the central government level (and, in the case of federal countries, for selected subnational 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. For this reason no national totals are provided.)