2024-03-19 17:28:00
Tiphaine Dubuard / Photo credits: Romain Doucelin / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP
It is a study published this Tuesday by UFC-Que Choisir. According to data collected by the consumer association, the amount of TEOM, a tax paid by property owners for the treatment of their household waste, increased by 6% between 2020 and 2022 to reach 125 euros per year.
Strong disparities
Worse, in some cities, it even exceeds 200 euros like in Marseille where each resident pays 217 euros per year. In Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, near Nice, it is almost twice as much, with a tax reaching 400 euros, three times more than the national average.
Disparities which can be explained by two factors. First, the price of real estate. The household waste removal tax is calculated in part on a cadastral basis which corresponds to the theoretical rent of a property. Thus, the more expensive the price per square meter, the more costly the tax will be for the inhabitants of a city, regardless of the volume of waste produced.
Second calculation factor, the rate voted by the community. This varies from one territory to another and depends on the cost of waste treatment: salaries, number of passages or even accessibility of places. For example, it is possible that the rate will be higher in a particularly landlocked city.
Lack of transparency
But according to Juliette Vacant, researcher at UFC-Que Choisir, these elements are not enough to explain the growing increase in the household waste removal tax. “It’s not normal that a city like Le Havre is, compared to Brest, much more expensive,” she is surprised. “It would be relevant to question municipalities and communities in addition to better understand how they explain these high tax levels.”
The study manager also points out the lack of transparency in certain municipalities. According to her, several community reports did not specify in detail the expenses linked to the handling of household waste. “What is annoying is that this tax is a little invisible like it is in the property tax,” believes the head of the UFC.
Still according to the consumer association, each inhabitant produces on average 561 kilos of household waste per year while each tonne of garbage costs on average 244 euros.
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