Database Specific
Database Specific Abstract AbstractFossil Fuel Support Inventory Indicators: GENERAL METADATA
General notes
This database compiles fossil fuel support aggregates drawn from the individual country inventories of the OECD Inventory of Fossil Fuel Support database.
Source Source Contact person/organisation Contact person/organisation Name of collection/source Name of collection/sourceOECD Companion to the Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels 2021
Data Characteristics Data Characteristics Date last updated Date last updatedNov-22
Other data characteristics Other data characteristicsData for 2021 are preliminary and in some instances contain OECD-generated estimates.
Country data for 2021 for all measures in Eastern partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) are preliminary. These are OECD-generated estimates and they do not represent official budgetary figures.
Periodicity PeriodicityAnnual
Power code Power code Concepts & Classifications Concepts & Classifications Key statistical concept Key statistical conceptIndicator
PSE: Producer Support Estimate
GSSE: General Services Support Estimate
CSE: Consumer Support Estimate
Other Aspects Other Aspects Other comments Other comments Recommended uses and limitations Recommended uses and limitationsUsers of tax expenditure estimates should bear in mind that the Inventory records tax expenditures as estimates of revenue that is foregone due to a particular feature of the tax system that reduces or postpones tax relative to a jurisdiction’s benchmark tax system, to the benefit of fossil fuels. Hence, (i) tax expenditure estimates could increase either because of greater concessions, relative to the benchmark tax treatment, or because of a raise in the benchmark itself; (ii) international comparison of tax expenditures could be misleading, due to country-specific benchmark tax treatments.
Measures appearing in the Inventory are classified as support without reference to the purpose for which they were first put in place or their economic or environmental effects. No judgment is therefore made as to whether or not such measures are inefficient or ought to be reformed.
The estimates presented in the OECD Inventory may be under-estimates, as several subsidies and broader support measures documented in the OECD Inventory may not be completely quantified or the complete set of fossil fuel support measures of covered countries may not have been exhaustively identified.
Fossil Fuel Support Inventory Indicators: GENERAL METADATA
General notes
This database compiles fossil fuel support aggregates drawn from the individual country inventories of the OECD Inventory of Fossil Fuel Support database.
OECD Companion to the Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels 2021
Annual
Nov-22
Data for 2021 are preliminary and in some instances contain OECD-generated estimates.
Country data for 2021 for all measures in Eastern partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) are preliminary. These are OECD-generated estimates and they do not represent official budgetary figures.
Indicator
PSE: Producer Support Estimate
GSSE: General Services Support Estimate
CSE: Consumer Support Estimate
Users of tax expenditure estimates should bear in mind that the Inventory records tax expenditures as estimates of revenue that is foregone due to a particular feature of the tax system that reduces or postpones tax relative to a jurisdiction’s benchmark tax system, to the benefit of fossil fuels. Hence, (i) tax expenditure estimates could increase either because of greater concessions, relative to the benchmark tax treatment, or because of a raise in the benchmark itself; (ii) international comparison of tax expenditures could be misleading, due to country-specific benchmark tax treatments.
Measures appearing in the Inventory are classified as support without reference to the purpose for which they were first put in place or their economic or environmental effects. No judgment is therefore made as to whether or not such measures are inefficient or ought to be reformed.
The estimates presented in the OECD Inventory may be under-estimates, as several subsidies and broader support measures documented in the OECD Inventory may not be completely quantified or the complete set of fossil fuel support measures of covered countries may not have been exhaustively identified.