Podatki ekologiczne w Polsce na tle innych krajów Unii Europejskiej
Ecological taxes in Poland and other European Union countries

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of environmentally related taxes existing in Poland and other EU countries which have recently become obliged to introduce a uniform statistical reporting system in this field for the needs of Eurostat. The research examines the quantity of revenues from environmental taxes and the forms of `ecological taxation´ in Poland and selected New Union countries with similar levels of economic development, as well as in some of the countries of the Old Union, generally considered leaders in ´ecological fiscalism´. Apart from Poland, the authors take into account the following countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway (which although does not belong to EU, is included in the Eurostat statistics). The analysis consists in investigating the indicators that reflect the amount of monetary resources from ecological taxes expressed as a share of total revenue from taxes as well as the amount of monetary resources from ecological taxes relative to GDP. Moreover, a comparative analysis of specific tax solutions in Poland and selected countries is conducted.

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