Environmental tax revenue and the environmental consciousness in the European Union

There is a relationship between the rate of environmental taxation and the environmental consciousness of EU member states. The tax revenue collected in environmentally conscious member states is greater than that in the V-4 states (Visegrád states: Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland) or in the less environmentally conscious EU-15 states. Of the V-4 states, the environmental tax revenue is collected at the highest rate in the Czech Republic, which is the best situated in terms of the environment and the least amount of tax is collected in Hungary, where the environment is in the poorest state.