Share of taxes and levies in household electricity price
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31.2%
European Union · as of 30 Jun 2008
Share of taxes and levies in household electricity price in the European Union averaged 31.2% as of 30 June 2008 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Highest electricity prices in Ireland and Germany
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The percentage of taxes in the total price increased by almost 10 percentage points (pp) from 31.2% in the first half of 2008 to 41.0% in the second half of 2019.
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- APA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. (2008). Electricity price statistics. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Electricity price statistics." 2008, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Electricity price statistics." 2008. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2008share18yfff, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Electricity price statistics}, year = {2008}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity\_price\_statistics. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Electricity price statistics
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Highest electricity prices in Ireland and Germany
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFFF