Monthly Excise Declarations for Unleaded Light Oil in 2017

European Union data on excise tax declarations for a specific fuel type, unleaded light oil, reported monthly. The dataset originates from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is licensed for public use under CC0-1.0. It covers the full calendar year of 2017.

Use Cases

• Analyze monthly excise tax revenue trends based on the declared fuel volumes.
• Model seasonal patterns in fuel consumption and taxation based on the monthly reporting structure.
• Benchmark national excise data against broader EU energy tax frameworks based on the dataset's source.

Strengths

• Data is focused on a single, clearly defined fuel product (unleaded light oil) for a specific year (2017).
• Published under a permissive public domain license (CC0-1.0).
• Sourced from an official government ministry, suggesting authoritative collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

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Time Range

2017

Freshness

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Geography

European Union (implied by platform 'eu_open_data')