Property tax in Ajaccio in 2026: the 19 % rise and the waste line it does not touch

1. What is the new property tax rate in Ajaccio in 2026 ?

The Ajaccio notice breaks down into four lines, only two of which move in 2026.

The Ajaccio municipal rate had not moved by a tenth of a point between 2021 and 2025. Over that period it remained one of the most moderate among French prefecture towns. The decision of April 2026 corrects that position in one go, without taking it up to the level of the most heavily taxed towns on the mainland.

2. Why did the town vote a rise of 19 % ?

The debate took up the first municipal council meeting of the new term, on 9 April 2026, before the budget vote two weeks later.

The position of the majority. The mayor Stéphane Sbraggia and his finance deputy Pierre Pugliesi present the rise as the condition for keeping municipal public services running, in a budget taken to close to 170 M€ against 164 M€ in 2025, that is +5,42 %. Total local tax revenue reaches 61,1 M€ in 2026. The wage bill represents 69 % of the operating budget.

The criticism from the opposition. Jean-André Miniconi called the budget "catastrophic". Romain Colonna, for Aiacciu Vivu, denounced a tax hammering preferred to savings in management. François Filoni, for the Rassemblement national, questioned the trend in the wage bill. The budget was adopted despite the votes against from the nationalist and far-right groups.

3. How much does the rise cost you depending on your district ?

The four profiles below are reconstructed from real districts of Ajaccio and from order-of-magnitude rental values, calibrated on the average effort announced by the town. They do not replace your notice, which alone is authoritative. The amounts are calculated at a constant tax base, to isolate the effect of the rate rise alone : the simulator in the next section adds the national revaluation of the bases of +0,8 % to it, and therefore shows a slightly higher amount.

Four typical profiles in Ajaccio

These profiles rest on districts with sharply contrasting prices : 2 314 €/m² in Les Cannes, 4 029 €/m² in the town centre, 4 879 €/m² in Le Trottel and up to 5 502 €/m² in Les Sanguinaires, the most highly rated sector, for a communal average of 3 959 €/m² for an apartment and 4 489 €/m² for a house in 2026 (DVF data, the French notarised sales database, processed by Immover, 2024-2025 transactions). The detail is on our page on the price per m² in Ajaccio.

4. Simulator : your extra cost in 2026

5. The waste line : 20,57 %, the Ajaccio anomaly

It is the item the 2026 rise does not touch, and yet it is the one that weighs most heavily in the comparison with the mainland.

What waste treatment costs in Corsica. According to the Corsican household waste observatory, the management of the island's household waste represented 104 M€ including tax for the 2022 financial year, that is 299 € excluding tax per inhabitant, up 1,3 % over one year. The national benchmark given by the observatory for a comparable tourist area is 160 € per inhabitant. The average cost reaches 451 € including tax per tonne, with a spread of 216 to 508 € per inhabitant depending on the inter-municipal authority.

Three factors explain the gap : insularity, which raises the cost of transferring and shipping out sorting residues ; seasonality, a service sized for a summer peak but funded by a permanent population ; and low density, which lengthens collection rounds. Transfer and transport account for 9 % of the island's total cost, collection and overheads 55 %, treatment 33 %.

6. Second homes : the 60 % surcharge that is added on top

If your Ajaccio property is not your main residence, the 2026 rise is therefore only half of the equation. You are subject to three levies at once : property tax at the new rate, the household waste collection tax at 20,57 %, and a residence tax increased by 60 %.

The contrast with the mainland is clear. Ajaccio applies the legal ceiling on the surcharge, as Nice, Marseille or Bordeaux do, but on a stock where the share of second homes is more than double that of Albi. Bastia, the other large town of the island, stopped at 50 %.

For a non-resident owner, the annual cost of holding an Ajaccio apartment becomes a decision factor in its own right, on the same footing as the seasonal rental yield or the prospect of a capital gain.

7. Ajaccio against Bastia and the mainland

The year 2026 will be remembered as the one in which the two large Corsican towns raised their property tax in the same week, for similar reasons and on different scales.

The most telling comparison is internal to the island. Bastia voted on 30 April 2026 a rise of 13,67 % in its municipal rate, taken from 36,58 % to 41,58 %, in a town where six inhabitants out of ten are tenants. Ajaccio goes further in percentage terms, but starts from lower down and spreads the effort across a stock where 45,6 % of households own their main residence. The Bastia detail is in our analysis of property tax in Bastia ; for mainland benchmarks, read the 2026 cut in Nice and the Marseille case.

8. What impact on the value of your property ?

Three observations to place the real effect of the April 2026 decision.

1. The Ajaccio market is driven by scarcity, not by taxation. With only 2,9 % of homes vacant, against 7,2 % in Albi and 9,3 % in Lyon, Ajaccio shows one of the lowest vacancy rates in France. Tightness of that kind absorbs a property tax rise without a visible price movement.

2. The effect is concentrated on second homes. A non-resident owner faces the property tax rise, a waste collection tax at 20,57 % and a residence tax increased by 60 %, all at once. It is on that segment, and not on main residences, that the trade-off between holding and selling can tip.

3. The address remains the first factor of value. From Les Cannes to Les Sanguinaires, the price per m² varies by more than two to one. No tax decision produces a gap of that order : the view, the aspect and the district weigh infinitely more than the rate.

To place your home precisely, see our page devoted to prices per m² in Ajaccio, set out from transactions actually recorded, or start a valuation below.