Band A · all 32 Scottish councils
How much is Band A council tax?
Band A costs between £1,354 and £1,546 a year in Scotland depending on your council, water and waste water included.
What this means
A Band A home pays about £122.90 a month in a typical Scottish council area.
Band A is 240/360of your council's Band D rate. That fraction is fixed by law and identical in every council.
Scotland only. Bands and rates work differently in England and Wales.
Every council
Band A in all 32 Scottish councils
A year, water included
1Midlothian£1,5462Aberdeen City£1,5263Argyll and Bute£1,5194Stirling£1,5095Glasgow City£1,5096East Ayrshire£1,5067Dundee City£1,5058East Dunbartonshire£1,5019Clackmannanshire£1,49810East Lothian£1,48811Falkirk£1,48612Orkney Islands£1,48513Moray£1,48414Renfrewshire£1,48315South Ayrshire£1,48116City of Edinburgh£1,47717West Dunbartonshire£1,47518North Ayrshire£1,47119Inverclyde£1,46920Perth and Kinross£1,46021Aberdeenshire£1,45722East Renfrewshire£1,45423Highland£1,45324West Lothian£1,44525Fife£1,43426Scottish Borders£1,42927Angus£1,40928Dumfries and Galloway£1,40529North Lanarkshire£1,40330Na h-Eileanan Siar£1,36031Shetland Islands£1,35932South Lanarkshire£1,354
Other bands
Not sure which band you are? Check with your postcode, or look the property up free on the Scottish Assessors site.
Straight answers
Questions people ask
How much is Band A council tax?
It depends on the council. Across Scotland, Band A runs from £1,354 a year in South Lanarkshire to £1,546 in Midlothian, water included — about £122.90 a month in a typical area.
How much is Band A council tax a month?
Between £112.84 and £128.81 a month over 12 instalments. Most Scottish councils spread it over 10 from April to January instead, so payments are larger but February and March are free.
Does Band A council tax include water?
Your bill does. At Band A Scottish Water charges £201.30 for water and £233.58 for waste water, £434.88 in total, collected with the council tax.
Where these figures come from
- Council Tax by band 2025-26, council tax datasets — Scottish Government
- Your charges explained 2026-27 — Scottish Water
Council tax 2025-26, water and waste water 2026-27. Some councils have announced rises for 2026-27 that are not in the national dataset yet.