Didier Bezard is a facilitator in a shopping mall. A profession that, a priori, has nothing to do with the taxation of household waste. However, this inhabitant of the Loiret has become an expert in the matter since he has decided to lead the fight against the fee for removal of household waste incentive (REOMi) was established in January 2017 in his town. The Adus, the collective of which he became a spokesperson, has lodged an appeal before the regional court of Montargis to contest its amount. “In total, 95 to 98% of the 45,000 homes that make up our 64 municipalities have experienced an increase since the implementation of the REOMi. The increases range from a single to a double or even a triple”, he laments.
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“The package is assumed not to take out their trash only once every three weeks!”
“In my commune, an annual rate equal to 17 exercised has been established. This means that a home has the right to leave their trash than 17 times per year. Otherwise, you are paying an amount out-of-plan”, he explains. For a tank of 180 litres, the most common, the package has been set to 281,40 euros per year and 3.96 euros for each additional lift. “Beyond their considerable amount, this plan is not realistic. It is assumed not to take out their trash only once every three weeks! Conversely, those who do not produce a lot of waste, as the owners of a secondary residence, are forced to pay the annual fee of 17 lifted,” he adds. Result: to avoid having to pay too expensive, the citizens throw their garbage anywhere. Deposits wild multiply. “For that the fee is an incentive, it should be that people pay according to what they are really producing. There are some chips on the rubbish bins to find out. So why maintain a package?”, asks the Adus. For the collective, the answer is simple: “it allows elected officials to increase dramatically the bills.” The dialogue with the Sictom of Sully, Chateauneuf, in charge of the collection of waste in its communes of the Loiret, is broken. Contacted by Le Figaro , the latter did not wish to speak. The justice is to settle this conflict on 15 march. “If we are given reason and that the charge is cancelled, it would be an earthquake and that can make case law,” says Didier Bezard.
“By me, a family of 4 people pays 54 euros in a small house, a widower who lives in a presbytery pays 700 euros”
The victory, Guy Pacaud also hope to get. This retired lives in the small town of Saint-Pierre-du-Regard, in Normandy. Him fight against the TEOM implementation in January 2017 by the agglomeration Community of Flers city centre, which has 42 municipalities. This time, it is the principle of the tax that is disputed. “The tax is linked to the rental value of the property. The problem is that these are the people who produce the waste and not the good!”, gag-t-it. “It is an unjust system. By me, a family of 4 people pays 54 euros in a small house, a widower who lives in a presbytery pays 700 euros. Me, I live alone in a 3 bedroom house but I pay 170 euros, as if we were 4 to live there! And my mom’s house is for sale, it is empty. However, it is necessary to pay 104 euros. This is stupid”, he explains. He also believes that garbage chips are a solution. “They give the actual weight of the garbage produced. The number of levees would depend on the places (city, campaign, etc.). As for the cost, it would be smoothed by the grouping of communes. Technically, it is feasible. But the deadlock is political,” he says. “The TEOM allows you to take money from the taxpayers, without that they do not attention. And then, the tax, it’s scary. Then the people pay and that is all. To challenge it is long, it is heavy and it is expensive,” he complained.
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“The bills are not up to standards”
Jacques Margalef, president of the Association France sewage Water treatment (AFAE), instead pushes each French act to amplify the challenge. His advice: pay the tax but the challenge before the administrative tribunal. “As for the fee, I advise users not to pay their invoice and assign the manager of the service in corrections. It is better to regroup”, he says. There is according to him a flaw to exploit in the invoices: “Unions and communities of communes should have a regulated trade declared to the prefecture. They must register at the centre for business formalities and then to the sales department of taxes, and then to the Urssaf. However, they do nothing of all this. This leads to bills that do not conform to the standards”, he explains. “The most annoying, is that the community arrogates to itself the right to make the bill an enforceable title which obliges the debtor to pay. However, for a civil service or commercial, it must be a seizure of the justice for the judge to render a decision in this sense. There is only him that can make an invoice enforceable,” adds Teacher Mary Baisy, a lawyer at the bar of Bordeaux, which defended before the criminal court thirty people disputing their bill. “The communities do not want to address the problem as this may represent a critical shortfall for them”, assures the lawyer.
