Council Tax band calculator

Search '[your council name] council tax band D' or check your latest Council Tax bill — it's usually listed alongside your own band's figure, or you can back-calculate it by dividing your own charge by the ratio for your band.

In England and Wales, check the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) website; in Scotland, the Scottish Assessors Association website. Both let you look up any property's band for free using its address or postcode.

Scotland kept the same A-D ratios as England but raised the E-H multipliers from April 2017, specifically to make higher-value properties pay proportionally more — so a Band H property in Scotland pays 245% of Band D, versus 200% in England or Wales.

10 monthly instalments (April to January, with no payment in February or March) is the default most councils set — the annual total is the same either way, just spread differently. Most councils will let you request 12 equal instalments instead if you'd rather spread it further; contact them directly to change it.

The single person discount (25% off, for one adult living alone) is built in — toggle it above. Student exemptions and other means-tested reductions aren't modelled, since they depend on circumstances specific to your household that a general calculator can't know — check with your council directly if any of those might apply to you.

No — Northern Ireland uses a completely different system called domestic rates, based on a property's capital value rather than a lettered band, with its own separate rate poundage set by the Northern Ireland Executive and your local council.