What is my council tax bill for 2026/27?
Your council and your band give the exact annual charge, the monthly instalment, and the named split across every body that sets part of it.
All 350 billing authorities in England, Wales and Scotland. Type a council name or a county.
2. Your band
Band D is the benchmark and the default here. Your property's actual band is on your bill, or look it up at gov.uk/check-council-tax-band.
3. Your household (optional)
Pick a council above to see the full 2026/27 bill for your band, what it is per month, and which bodies set each part of it.
The reference figures behind the calculator
The tool reads the same 2026/27 registry tables this whole site is built from: 350 billing authorities across England, Wales and Scotland, each with its own published rate for every band. It does not estimate anything. Where it shows a split, those elements come from the registry at Band D and are scaled to your band by the ratio the registry itself publishes, so the parts always add back up to the whole.
England average Band D
£2,391.52
£239.15 a month over 10 instalments
296 authorities in the dataset
Wales average Band D
£2,283.08
£228.31 a month over 10 instalments
22 authorities in the dataset
Scotland average Band D
£1,653.44
£165.34 a month over 10 instalments
32 authorities in the dataset
What each band costs on the England average
Your own council will be higher or lower than this. These are the statutory fractions applied to the England average Band D of £2,391.52, which is what the calculator replaces with your council's own figure.
| Band | Fraction of Band D | On the England average | Per month (10) | Per month (12) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band A | 6/9 | £1,594.35 | £159.43 | £132.86 |
| Band B | 7/9 | £1,860.07 | £186.01 | £155.01 |
| Band C | 8/9 | £2,125.80 | £212.58 | £177.15 |
| Band D | 9/9 | £2,391.52 | £239.15 | £199.29 |
| Band E | 11/9 | £2,922.97 | £292.30 | £243.58 |
| Band F | 13/9 | £3,454.42 | £345.44 | £287.87 |
| Band G | 15/9 | £3,985.87 | £398.59 | £332.16 |
| Band H | 18/9 | £4,783.04 | £478.30 | £398.59 |
Bands A to H apply in England and Scotland; Wales has a ninth band, Band I, at 21/9 of Band D. Scotland uses these fractions for Bands A to D only: Bands E to H were made more progressive in 2017, so a Scottish Band H is 882/360 of Band D rather than 18/9. The calculator sidesteps the whole question by reading each council's own published rate for each band.
Why one bill has several authors
A council tax bill arrives from one authority but is set by several. In two-tier England the district or borough council does the billing and keeps only its own element, which is usually the smallest slice. The county council takes the largest. The police and crime commissioner sets a precept, the fire authority often sets another, and in London and the combined authority areas a mayoral precept is added as well. Each of those bodies is capped separately, which is why a bill can rise by more than 5% in a year when the billing authority itself stayed inside its own limit.
That matters when you want to know who to hold responsible for a rise, or which part of the bill a discount applies to. The answer to the second is all of it: a single person discount, a student exemption or a disabled band reduction comes off the whole charge, precepts included.
Questions about your bill
How much is my council tax for 2026/27?
How much is council tax per month?
What is my council tax actually paying for?
How are the other bands worked out from Band D?
Does the single person discount apply to the whole bill?
Is this the same as my actual bill?
Rates for 2026/27 (from 1 April 2026). Sources: Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England: 2026 to 2027 (MHCLG, 25 March 2026); Council Tax levels: April 2026 to March 2027 (Welsh Government, 24 March 2026); Council Tax Datasets: Council Tax by band 2026-27 (Scottish Government, 31 March 2026). Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset built 2026-09-01.