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Charente-Maritime · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 70,645 residents

Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge

€13 million spent in 2025.

€183 per resident · Town groupings of the same size: €469

What Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services34%€4.3M

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

  • Culture, sport and youth23%€3M
  • Waste, water and environment14%€1.9M
  • Economy and trade9%€1.2M
  • Health and social care7%€967k
  • Town planning and housing6%€835k
  • Education3%€433k
The 2 other items (2%)
  • Streets and transport1%€194k
  • Not assigned to a policy1%€113k

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €13M, by recipient.

  • Staff46%€6M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies and contractors34%€4.4M
  • Grants and contributions16%€2.1M
  • Benefits paid to people< 1%€12k
  • Other3%€416k

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge (DGFiP).

Investment and works

€1M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €14 per resident. Town groupings of the same size: €86.

  • Administration and shared services€476k
  • Waste, water and environment€172k
  • Culture, sport and youth€98k
  • Streets and transport€66k
  • Town planning and housing€35k
  • Other policies€160k

On top of that, €223k paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €15.4M · spending: €13M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)68%€10.8M
  • State and other contributions28%€4.4M
  • Grants for works and VAT refunds3%€475k
  • Users and rents1%€236k

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€196 of debt per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €277

2.6 years of savings to repay it

€86 of local taxes per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €23

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Town groupings of the same size”: median of the 41 town groupings of 50,000 to 106,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes de la Haute SaintongeWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €183
  • DépartementCharente-MaritimeMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,290
  • RegionNouvelle-AquitaineHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €509

Each row: the body’s own spending per resident, the figure at the top of its page (DGFiP). Not to be added up: a grant from one level is spent by another.

Who is part of Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge

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.

Do you work for Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge, or sit on its council? A figure to correct, context to add: write to us.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge · Sources and method

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