Band B · all 32 Scottish councils
How much is Band B council tax?
Band B costs between £1,580 and £1,803 a year in Scotland depending on your council, water and waste water included.
What this means
A Band B home pays about £143.38 a month in a typical Scottish council area.
Band B is 280/360of 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 B in all 32 Scottish councils
A year, water included
1Midlothian£1,8032Aberdeen City£1,7803Argyll and Bute£1,7724Stirling£1,7615Glasgow City£1,7606East Ayrshire£1,7577Dundee City£1,7568East Dunbartonshire£1,7529Clackmannanshire£1,74710East Lothian£1,73611Falkirk£1,73412Orkney Islands£1,73213Moray£1,73114Renfrewshire£1,73115South Ayrshire£1,72816City of Edinburgh£1,72317West Dunbartonshire£1,72118North Ayrshire£1,71619Inverclyde£1,71420Perth and Kinross£1,70321Aberdeenshire£1,70022East Renfrewshire£1,69623Highland£1,69524West Lothian£1,68625Fife£1,67326Scottish Borders£1,66827Angus£1,64428Dumfries and Galloway£1,63929North Lanarkshire£1,63730Na h-Eileanan Siar£1,58731Shetland Islands£1,58632South Lanarkshire£1,580
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 B council tax?
It depends on the council. Across Scotland, Band B runs from £1,580 a year in South Lanarkshire to £1,803 in Midlothian, water included — about £143.38 a month in a typical area.
How much is Band B council tax a month?
Between £131.65 and £150.27 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 B council tax include water?
Your bill does. At Band B Scottish Water charges £234.85 for water and £272.51 for waste water, £507.36 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.