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Val-de-Cognac, in Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac
Photo (Val-de-Cognac): Misssoleil, CC BY-SA 3.0

Charente · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 70,675 residents · Chair: Jérôme Sourisseau

Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac

€57 million spent in 2025.

€806 per resident · Urban-area groupings of the same size: €662

What Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac spends, by policy

  • Culture, sport and youth31%€17.4M
  • Administration and shared services18%€10.5M

    Bodies do not all file the same costs here: some put all their staff under it.

  • Health and social care10%€5.7M
  • Economy and trade8%€4.5M
  • Town planning and housing8%€4.3M
  • Public safety6%€3.4M
  • Loans: repayments and interest6%€3.3M
  • Streets and transport4%€2.4M
  • Waste, water and environment2%€1.3M
The 3 other items (7%)
  • Education2%€1.3M
  • Passed on to other bodies2%€926k
  • Not assigned to a policy3%€1.9M

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac (DGFiP), by public policy.

Where the money goes

The €57M spent in 2025, by who receives it.

  • The intercommunality’s staff35%€19.7M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies34%€19.6M

    Purchases, services and works. See the names ↓

  • Associations and other bodies10%€5.9M

    Grants and contributions.

  • Public bodies6%€3.4M

    Compulsory contributions, mostly to the fire and rescue service.

  • Banks6%€3.3M

    Loan interest and repayments.

  • Syndicates and groupings of local authorities2%€1M

    Compulsory or voluntary contributions.

  • Other7%€4.1M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac (DGFiP).

Contracts state a maximum amount for their whole term, often several years. That amount differs from what was paid. Purchases, services and works paid to companies by the intercommunality in 2025: €19.6M (its accounts).

43 contracts signed in 2025 · €6.8M before tax

Why this total differs from the €19.6M of purchases, services and works paid to companies

These are the amounts of the contracts signed in the year, over their whole length, not what was paid. The money paid in a year also goes to older contracts and to purchases too small to be published (under €40,000 excl. VAT). For a framework agreement, the amount is a ceiling.

Investment and works

€11.3M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €160 per resident. Urban-area groupings of the same size: €101.

Click a building site to see the contract

Largest works contracted since 2023, among published contracts. Amounts planned at signature, often spread over several years.

On top of that, €2.7M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €49.2M · borrowing: €6.5M · spending: €57M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)39%€22M
  • State and other contributions27%€15.2M
  • Users and rents11%€6.2M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…10%€5.7M
  • Other receipts< 1%€192k
  • Borrowing11%€6.5M
  • Drawn from reserves2%€1.2M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€858 of debt per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €559

3.3 years of savings to repay it

€13 of local taxes per resident

Urban-area groupings of the same size: €51

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Urban-area groupings of the same size”: median of the 117 urban-area groupings of 50,000 to 100,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac

Spending per resident in 2025, and what each level pays for.

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté d'agglomération du Grand CognacWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €806 per resident
  • DépartementCharenteMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,414 per resident
  • RegionNouvelle-AquitaineHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €519 per resident

Each amount is what the body spends per resident, from its accounts (DGFiP). Do not add them up: part of the money passes from one body to another.

Who is part of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac

Understanding these figures

Who does what

The intercommunality collects and treats waste, often runs water and sanitation, organises urban transport, and pays part of its revenue back to its member towns.

Official table of responsibilities (July 2025)

Why the levels are not added up

The same euro can appear twice: once when a region or a département pays a grant, again when the town spends it. Each page shows its own body’s spending.

Where these figures come from

Spending: the accounts of the main budget published by the DGFiP, by public policy. Revenue, debt and taxes: OFGL. Contracts: published contract data (DECP), amounts planned at signing.

Elected officials and staff of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac · Sources and method

Accounts 2025 (DGFiP, OFGL). The method · See the source