Übersetzung für "Stromsteuer" in Englisch

Thus, the electricity tax has to be assessed separately.

As concerns the tax on electricity, large-scale energy users are fully exempted.

The reduced tax rates are being maintained under the increased electricity tax.

For this reason, the increase in electricity tax also requires authorisation under the state aid rules.

Electricity tax for industrial customers was decreased at the beginning of 2007.

Certified companies are, however, partially exempted from EEG apportionment and electricity tax

The electricity tax was originally introduced in the wake of the electricity market’s liberalization.

The most important environmental taxes are energy, motor vehicle and electricity taxes.

Nonetheless, the handling of energy and electricity tax is often of secondary importance in companies.

The third possibility would have been a lowering of the electricity tax.

The main features of the extension are the gradual annual increase in electricity tax and in fuel tax.

Commission opens investigation into impact of new electricity tax on Grid Feed-In Law (Germany)

The main feature of the extension is the gradual annual increase in electricity tax and fuel tax.

On 1 April 1999 Germany introduced an electricity tax as part of the Law on the initiation of the ecological tax reform.

The approval granted to the German government to allow tax reliefs on energy and electricity tax expired at the end of 2012.

This should be achieved quickly as part of negotiations on the funding for regional transport or through changes to the tax on electricity.

This shall not apply to excise duties, excluding energy duty on natural gas and electricity duty.

The electricity tax will be reduced to the European minimum rate in order to relieve the burden on households and promote sector coupling.

Thus, the full tax exemption from the electricity tax does not result in a loss of State revenue, i.e. the measure is not financed through State resources.

In order to maintain the competitiveness of Swedish industry while raising the energy taxation as a whole, the industry has to be exempted from the electricity tax.

As these energy sources in many Member States have been tax-free, Sweden considers it reasonable to exempt the Swedish manufacturing industry from the tax on electricity.

It would not have been possible to achieve these levels without an exemption from the electricity tax for certain sectors.

As the Swedish Act on Tax on Energy does not contain rules according to which companies in the manufacturing industry are obliged to pay tax on electricity, an amendment of the act would constitute such retroactive taxation, which is illegal according to Swedish constitutional law.

Secondly, as 90 % of the electricity in Sweden is produced from nuclear and hydropower plants, the electricity tax does not have the same steering effect on CO2 emissions as the CO2 tax.

Thus, the Swedish Government argues that the Commission in its assessment of compatibility should take into account the tax burden resulting from all components of the tax system together rather than assessing the exemption from the electricity tax in isolation.