Council Tax Calculator — England
Updated for the 2026/27 tax year
Check your council tax bill by band for any of the 296 English billing authorities, using MHCLG's published
2026/27 figures. Every amount is the full area total — the council's charge plus all precepts — not just the
district slice some calculators show.
How bands are assessed
England's council tax bands (A to H) are based on what your property was worth on 1 April 1991
— not what it's worth now. The Valuation Office Agency assigns the band. Band D is the reference point, and
every other band is a fixed statutory fraction of it: Band A is 6/9 of Band D, Band H is 18/9 (exactly twice
Band D). So once you know your authority's Band D figure, every band follows from it.
What determines your authority's rate
Two houses in the same band pay very different amounts depending on where they are, because the bill bundles
together several separately-set charges:
- the billing authority's own charge (your district or unitary council);
- precepts — county council, Police and Crime Commissioner, fire authority, and any
combined-authority levy, plus an average parish/town precept;
- the adult social care precept, an extra amount upper-tier authorities can add.
Most council tax calculators only do a postcode lookup for one address. This one covers all 296 authorities
by band, so you can compare — and it's the same council-tax figure MyTaxReality folds into your complete tax
position alongside Income Tax, NI and everything else.