Environmental taxation in Belgium: division of areas of responsibility

Niveau fédéral

Niveau Régional

Federal level

♦ Service charge on domestic fuel monitoring
♦ Energy contributions
♦ Ecotaxes (drink containers, disposable cameras, batteries, the packaging of certain products (inks, glues and solvents) for professional use)
♦ Compensatory excise duty tax (cars, composite coaches and minibuses whose motors are fed by gas-oil / diesel) (up until 2008)
♦ Supplementary road tax
♦ Excise duties on energy and electrical products

Regional level

♦ Road tax
♦ Release tax
♦ ‘Eurovignette’

Flemish region :
♦ Service charge for collecting ground water
♦ Service charge for collecting surface water
♦ Service charge for spilling waste water
♦ Service charge for waste
♦ Tax on liquid manure

Walloon region :
♦ Service charges and taxes for water intake
♦ Tax for spilling industrial and domestic water
♦ Tax on waste

Brussels-Capital region :
♦ Service charge for spilling waste water