In 2025, environmental taxes generated revenue of 27,710 million euros, which implies an increase of 7.5% compared with the previous year’s figures, and with households bearing 42.4% of that burden. This data is included in the advance release of the 2025 Environmental Tax Accounts published by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
With regard to the set of taxes in the Spanish economy, environmental-type levies accounted for 6.6% of the total tax revenue, two tenths less than in 2024.
According to the classification of the national accounts system, taxes on products, excluding VAT, reached 20,871 million euros, 10.9% more than in the preceding year. In turn, the other taxes on production stood at 5,026 million (2.9% below 2024), and the other current environmental taxes reached 1,813 million (0.9% more).
Environmental-type taxes accounted for 39.9% of total taxes on products, excluding VAT. In turn, the other current taxes with an environmental purpose concentrated 32.2% of the total, while the other environmental-type taxes on production accounted for 20.4%.
Households bore 42% of the environmental burden
By sector, households contributed 11,758 million euros, 1.4% more than in 2024, which is equivalent to 42.4% of the total of the 2025 environmental taxes. By categories, they paid 72.6% of taxes on transport, 42% of taxes on energy, and 6% of taxes on pollution and resources.
Economic activity branches assumed the remaining 57.6% of environmental revenue. Broken down by type of tax, they paid 94% of levies on pollution and resources, 58% of taxes on energy, and 27.4% of taxes on transport.
Among the activities that bore the most environmental taxes in 2025 were manufacturing industry, with 20.8% of the total, and the transport and storage sector, with 13.2%.
At the opposite end were agriculture, livestock farming, forestry, and fishing, together with extractive industries, which contributed barely 0.4% and 0.5% of the total of environmental taxes, respectively.