Energy Taxation in Europe, Japan and The United States

Almost all industrialised countries impose taxes on energy. Transport fuels have carried a relatively high fiscal tax for a long time. In Finland, the slump of the early 1990s led to quickly increasing energy taxation, the primary goal of which was to make up for the deficit in government finances. At the same time, the other Nordic countries also raised their energy taxes, but in most of the countries energy taxes were still at a low level at the time or energy was not taxed at all, with the exception of transport fuels.