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Marennes-Hiers-Brouage, in Communauté de communes du Bassin de Marennes
Photo (Marennes-Hiers-Brouage): Serge Lacotte, CC BY-SA 3.0

Charente-Maritime · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 15,847 residents

Communauté de communes du Bassin de Marennes

€6.6 million spent in 2025.

€416 per resident · Town groupings of the same size: €515

What Communauté de communes du Bassin de Marennes spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services32%€2.1M

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

  • Health and social care22%€1.5M
  • Economy and trade15%€979k
  • Culture, sport and youth10%€652k
  • Town planning and housing9%€568k
  • Waste, water and environment4%€283k
  • Passed on to other bodies5%€333k
The 3 other items (3%)
  • Streets and transport1%€95k
  • Loans: repayments and interest1%€68k
  • Education1%€38k

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes du Bassin de Marennes (DGFiP), by public policy.

Where the money goes

The €6.6M spent in 2025, by who receives it.

  • Associations and other bodies35%€2.3M

    Grants and contributions.

  • Companies33%€2.2M

    Purchases, services and works.

  • The intercommunality’s staff23%€1.5M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Syndicates and groupings of local authorities5%€333k

    Compulsory or voluntary contributions.

  • Banks1%€68k

    Loan interest and repayments.

  • Other2%€160k

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes du Bassin de Marennes (DGFiP).

Investment and works

€1.3M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €84 per resident. Town groupings of the same size: €78.

  • Economy and trade€701k
  • Town planning and housing€291k
  • Administration and shared services€131k
  • Culture, sport and youth€104k
  • Streets and transport€80k
  • Other policies€24k

On top of that, €351k paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes du Bassin de Marennes (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €6M · spending: €6.6M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)65%€4.3M
  • State and other contributions18%€1.2M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…5%€311k
  • Users and rents3%€185k
  • Other receipts1%€82k
  • Drawn from reserves9%€580k

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€135 of debt per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €311

2 years of savings to repay it

€88 of local taxes per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €68

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 303 town groupings of 15,000 to 25,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté de communes du Bassin de Marennes

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

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes du Bassin de MarennesWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €416 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 du Bassin de Marennes

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 du Bassin de Marennes: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté de communes du Bassin de Marennes · Sources and method

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