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Tax accounts, August 2014

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Decline in tax payments

So far this year, NOK 572.4 billion has been paid in taxes in Norway. NOK 383.9 billion of this was paid through the advance tax arrangement and NOK 122.1 billion was from taxes on petroleum extraction. In total, this is a decrease of 2.9 per cent compared to the same period last year.

Tax accounts. Distributed taxes. NOK million and change in per cent.Published 16 September 2014
Distributed taxes. Accumulated figures so far this year Change in per cent compared to same period previous year
August 2013 August 2014 August 2013 August 2014
Total 589 728 572 388 3.9 -2.9
Ordinary taxes to central government 20 542 19 507 3.0 -5.0
Ordinary taxes on extraction of petroleum 56 325 46 502 -0.6 -17.4
Special income tax on extraction of petroleum 93 833 75 634 0.4 -19.4
Tax equalization tax to central government 147 385 148 191 3.0 0.5
Ordinary taxes to county authority (incl. Oslo) 17 092 17 654 6.6 3.3
Ordinary taxes to municipalities 80 597 82 216 7.0 2.0
Member contributions to the National Insurance Scheme 69 647 74 408 5.1 6.8
Employer contributions to the National Insurance Scheme 101 657 105 027 7.8 3.3
Taxes on dividends to foreign shareholders 2 651 3 248 -0.1 22.5

Source: Statistics Norway

Figure 1. Paid and distributed taxes, by county authority. January-August
Figure 1. Paid and distributed taxes, by county authority. January-August

NOK 32.3 billion was paid in taxes in August this year. The majority of the payments came from taxes on petroleum extraction, which accounted for NOK 27.5 billion of the total. So far this year, there has been a reduction of 18.7 per cent in taxes on petroleum extraction compared to the same period last year. This is the reason for the decline in the overall tax payments, which has decreased by 2.9 per cent.

Through the advance tax arrangement and non-personal taxpaying arrangement, excluding taxes on petroleum extraction, a total of NOK 450.3 billion has been paid so far this year. Compared to last year, this is an increase of 2.4 per cent, or NOK 10.7 billion. Contributions to the National Insurance Scheme accounted for 179.4 billion of the payments through the advance tax arrangement, which is an increase of 4.7 per cent.