Mineral Oil Tax: A Cash Cow for the Finance Minister

Politics ♦ Published: October 15, 2010; 14:41 ♦ (Vindobona)

State revenues for the mineral oil tax have risen steadily since 2000. At that time, motorists paid 2.726 billion euro; this year it will be 3.9 billion euro.

38 billion euro generated by the mineral oil tax (Mineralölsteuer, MöSt), have entered the coffers of the Finance Minister since 2000. In the discussion about a possible increase of the MöSt, the ARBÖ automobile club asks the Minister to take the billions in MöSt revenues into account: car drivers have delivered a total of 38.15 billion euro to the Republic over this period. The…