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

Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge

€17.4 million spent in 2025.

€246 per resident · Town groupings of the same size: €471

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

  • Administration and shared services25%€4.3M

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

  • Culture, sport and youth17%€3M
  • Waste, water and environment11%€1.9M
  • Economy and trade7%€1.2M
  • Health and social care6%€967k
  • Town planning and housing5%€835k
  • Not assigned to a policy26%€4.5M
The 2 other items (4%)
  • Education2%€433k
  • Streets and transport1%€194k

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

Where the money goes

The €17.4M spent in 2025, by who receives it.

  • The intercommunality’s staff34%€6M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies25%€4.4M

    Purchases, services and works. See the names ↓

  • Associations and other bodies12%€2.1M

    Grants and contributions.

  • Residents< 1%€12k

    Aid, study grants and emergency help.

  • Other28%€4.9M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge (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: €4.4M (its accounts).

2 contracts signed in 2024 · €272k before tax · no contract published since 2024

Why this total differs from the €4.4M 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

€983k of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €14 per resident. Town groupings of the same size: €84.

  • Administration and shared services€476k
  • Waste, water and environment€148k
  • 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: €17.4M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)60%€10.8M
  • State and other contributions25%€4.4M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…3%€475k
  • Users and rents1%€236k
  • Drawn from reserves11%€2M

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 107,000 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
    €246 per resident
  • DépartementCharente-MaritimeMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,265 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 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.

Elected officials and staff of Communauté de communes de la Haute Saintonge: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

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