The department of

Allier Allier ( , , ; oc, Alèir) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that borders Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire to the east, Puy-de-Dôme to the south, and Creuse to the south-west. Named afte ...

has, since 1 January 2017, had eleven public establishments for intercommunal cooperation (EPCI) with their own tax system: three ''communautés d'agglomération'' and eight ''communautés de communes''. Until 2016, the department had twenty-one intercommunal structures (three ''communautés d'agglomération'' and eighteen ''communautés de communes''). The 320

communes An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, relig ...

(318 in 2016 and 317 since 2017) of the department are part of a ''communautés d'agglomération/de communes'' of Allier or one of its neighbouring departments.

List of intercommunalities in 2019

With the exception of the communauté de communes du Bocage Bourbonnais, subject to additional taxation, all of Allier's intercommunal governments apply a single professional tax. By prefectural decree of 8 December 2017, the commune of Saint-Point was moved from the communauté de communes Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne to the agglomerated community of

Vichy Communauté Vichy Communauté is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Vichy. It is located in the Allier department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, central France. Created in 2017, its seat is in Vich ...

References

{{Intercommunalities of France Intercommunalities of Allier