Does Sweden’s industrial Baltic Sea fleet cost or contribute to the Swedish taxpayer

by

I have just looked through a new report from Baltic Sea 2020 (link).

They looked at how much the large scale Baltic sea fisheries brought into the Swedish government’s finance ministry.

The numbers will sober up the most interventionist fishing minister.

 

English Summary

Summary of government finance costs and revenues from large-scale Baltic fisheries,
in Swedish Krona million per year

 

Direct subsidies

Direct Subsidies -75
Unemployment benefit -1
Exemption from Fuel Taxes -106
Administrative costs
  • Maritime and Water Authority
 -32
  • The Coast Guard
 -40
  • The Swedish Board of Agriculture and others
 -7
Tax revenue + 22
In total -239

Note: Rounded numbers

The Swedish large-scale fishing fleet brought in around 2.1 million euro in tax revenue. It cost the Swedish government around 25 million euro to support the fleet, rounding out at a net loss to the Swedish taxpayer of 23 million euros.

It would be useful if finance ministries across the EU repeated this exercise.