I’ve had the email but not logged on yet. I’ve started paying monthly this year which is a great relief.
Please be wary of clicking links in emails! The scammers love this season.
If you can, it is better to access your online account using another way.
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Yes I agree. My bill here is €1000 more than I paid in Bretagne so a lot to find in one go and its gone down this year too.
Got notified mid August. Gone up by just €38 over last year, so about a third of the 2023>2024 increase.
I know it’s impossible to generalise accurately, as everyone is in a different area and has different sized houses, but would folks mind sharing what their annual bill is, for TF and bin collections etc?
Especially those in Charente / Vienne / Deux Sèvres - it would help me with my house purchase planning as estate agents don’t generally quote TF amounts in their listings, except as a percentage of the nominal value, which is no help at all. 
Would an annual tax be a criterion in your house selection Chris? Surely not - a bit like only considering UK property in a particular council tax band?
Surely yes, if it’s about disposable income. 
I did think that, yes, then wondered would the tax vary enormously between properties in a certain price band in a particular area?
Yes because my pension(s) won’t stretch very far so i need to make sure I am buying somewhere that is not only suitable and in my purchasing price range but not going to cost me too much to run.
Probably not, but at the moment I really don’t have much idea what a likely TF level is. I have seen it as low as €300-400 but I know some people pay thousands.
I’m thinking about a property in the €80k - €120k range with probably 2 bedrooms and a bit of garden, if that is useful to know.
Understood- you would also then want the energy rating of the property - the DPE certificate, I understand these are part of the ‘diagnostics’ which must be done before a sale, so hopefully an agent would have them. Actually I recall the energy rating is on adverts (seloger) and I recall I’ve seen estimated energy costs included sometimes.
€1145 including €270 (up 29%) for weekly doorstep collection (yes we still have it!) of recycling and ordinary household rubbish in Seine Maritime (for a 3 bedroom, 126m2 house in a hamlet, not in a town).
Btw people reporting they’ve received their TF bills in August - as opposed to online this weekend - are presumably not paying monthly/mensualisés…
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Small communes are cheaper than larger villages/towns and cities. I paid less than €300/year foncières for my previous very large breton house which was in a village of less than 900 but now, living on a new estate in a small town, I pay over €1000/year more! The smaller the commune you live in, the cheaper it is and where it is located, i.e. not coastal.
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yes energy costs (at least as a ballpark figure) are generally listed on Bien Ici etc., but TF usually not.
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I think ours was about €550 last year plus €360 for shit drop it yourself service, plus another €175 for my AE with zero turnover and I don’t even have the f£&-+( card for the 6 openings a year. So over €500 for bins 
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You can look up department averages, and sometimes communes. Size of house, quality and access to services will influence the TF.
Even if not on advert you can ask agent who will have the info.
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€526 here in 47 for a considerably larger property than the one Chris is looking at, but the commune did build a concrete pad for the bins that’s only a hundred metres away, so I can drag them there and back myself anytime I please rather than drive to the old collection point 750 metres away.
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We live in a small village (around 830 folks in 2022 according to Insee) and our TF this year will be 182€ - last year it was 180€. We are both over 75 so I think it’s reduced because of our age.
Our lake is in another commune but that also is a small one. TF this year will be 81€ and last year it was 86€. Don’t know why it’s reduced but I’m not complaining!
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Thank you yes I would do that, but I am not at the point of looking at specific houses yet - I can’t move to France until my mother dies and then there is probate etc. - it’s just getting some idea for budgeting purposes.
Here you are. The Creuse and La Vendee have reputation of being the cheapest. But swings and roundabouts as also fewer services per person, like doctors. And you can spend more on transport to go any buy a nail.
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Perhaps the canicule has dried up your lake so it is now smaller?
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