Leeds Council Tax 2026/27: Bands, Parish Charges and a Discount Calculator
The 2026/27 Leeds council tax for every band, the police and fire shares, the extra charge in each of 31 parish and town council areas, and a calculator for single person discount, student exemption and disabled band reduction.
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A Leeds council tax bill has one headline number, the charge for your band, and a handful of things that move it: a parish or town council on top, a discount for living alone, an exemption for a house of students, a reduction for a disabled household. The council publishes each piece on a different page.
This page puts them in one calculator for 2026/27, with the band charges, the police and fire shares, all 31 parish and town council charges, and the student rules that matter in a city with Leeds's student population.
Work out a Leeds bill for 2026/27
Pick the band on your bill and tell us who lives in the home. The result is the full-year charge before any Council Tax Support.
Adults who are not counted include a live-in carer, a student nurse and an apprentice paid no more than £195 a week. Under 18s are never counted.
Your bill for the year
The 2026/27 charge, band by band
The first column is the city council's published figure for each band. Police and fire come from the authorities' own tables. The last column is what is left after taking those two away, which is our subtraction.
| Band | Full charge | West Yorkshire Police | West Yorkshire Fire | Rest, mainly Leeds City Council |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,514.34 | £185.52 | £59.66 | £1,269.16 |
| B | £1,766.73 | £216.44 | £69.60 | £1,480.69 |
| C | £2,019.12 | £247.36 | £79.55 | £1,692.21 |
| D | £2,271.51 | £278.28 | £89.49 | £1,903.74 |
| E | £2,776.29 | £340.12 | £109.38 | £2,326.79 |
| F | £3,281.07 | £401.96 | £129.26 | £2,749.85 |
| G | £3,785.85 | £463.80 | £149.15 | £3,172.90 |
| H | £4,543.02 | £556.56 | £178.98 | £3,807.48 |
Band A has a reduced rate of £1,261.95 for households with a disabled band reduction. The charges for the other bands are fixed fractions of Band D (from six ninths for A up to eighteen ninths for H), which is how the figures above fit together to the penny.
Parish and town councils: the extra line on the bill
31 areas of the city are served by a parish or town council. Its charge is not optional and the council must include it. Type a name to find yours.
| Parish or town council | Extra at Band D | Whole Band D bill | Change in the council's budget | Compared with the dearest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberford and District | £29.79 | £2,301.30 | 0.0% | |
| Allerton Bywater | £55.49 | £2,327.00 | -2.3% | |
| Alwoodley | £17.74 | £2,289.25 | 24.8% | |
| Arthington | £11.22 | £2,282.73 | 10.0% | |
| Bardsey cum Rigton | £37.80 | £2,309.31 | -1.9% | |
| Barwick in Elmet and Scholes | £25.44 | £2,296.95 | 4.0% | |
| Boston Spa | £41.28 | £2,312.79 | 4.5% | |
| Bramham cum Oglethorpe | £47.96 | £2,319.47 | 3.8% | |
| Bramhope and Carlton | £37.86 | £2,309.37 | 12.8% | |
| Clifford | £53.27 | £2,324.78 | 3.8% | |
| Collingham with Linton | £51.90 | £2,323.41 | 75.9% | |
| Drighlington | £40.81 | £2,312.32 | 3.5% | |
| East Keswick | £42.52 | £2,314.03 | 4.8% | |
| Gildersome | £14.80 | £2,286.31 | 4.0% | |
| Great and Little Preston | £56.25 | £2,327.76 | 13.1% | |
| Harewood | £12.09 | £2,283.60 | 5.0% | |
| Horsforth | £28.38 | £2,299.89 | 41.1% | |
| Kippax | £63.52 | £2,335.03 | 0.3% | |
| Ledsham | £76.25 | £2,347.76 | 2.4% | |
| Micklefield | £86.23 | £2,357.74 | 1.9% | |
| Morley | £20.94 | £2,292.45 | 0.0% | |
| Otley | £101.06 | £2,372.57 | 2.0% | |
| Pool in Wharfedale | £59.26 | £2,330.77 | 0.0% | |
| Rawdon | £16.71 | £2,288.22 | 3.8% | |
| Scarcroft | £36.34 | £2,307.85 | 21.0% | |
| Shadwell | £53.26 | £2,324.77 | 5.0% | |
| Swillington | £48.52 | £2,320.03 | 34.5% | |
| Thorner | £48.02 | £2,319.53 | 4.3% | |
| Thorp Arch | £65.40 | £2,336.91 | 11.0% | |
| Walton | £67.25 | £2,338.76 | 4.8% | |
| Wetherby | £127.26 | £2,398.77 | 10.2% |
The last two figures are our arithmetic from the council's table: the whole bill adds the extra to £2,271.51, and the change compares each council's 2026/27 budget (its precept) with 2025/26. A change in the budget is not the same as a change in your charge, which also depends on how many homes share it.
Student houses: who pays and when nobody does
Everyone a full-time student
A household where every adult is a full-time student pays no council tax. Leeds defines full time as a course of at least a year with an average of 21 hours a week for at least 24 weeks, or a course below higher education of more than three months and more than 12 hours a week for someone under 20.
One application covers the whole house. You list every adult, each student's number and course dates, and the council sends an exemption notice to keep for your records. A student who drops out must tell the council.
Who gets the bill in a shared house
If housemates sign one agreement and share the rent, they are responsible together. If each signs for a room alone, or the house was built or adapted for people who are not one household, the landlord usually pays.
A house with one non-student adult and students gets the 25% single-person rate, but two or more non-students or part-timers means no discount. The calculator above follows that rule. Our lists of student letting agents and student accommodation providers are the place to ask who is responsible before you sign.
When the bill looks wrong
The band
The Valuation Office Agency decides every band. A new build may have none yet, and the council cannot bill until the Agency tells it, so the first bill can be late and then runs from the day you moved in. To challenge a band, use the Agency's route on GOV.UK.
The discounts
Besides the ones in the calculator, Leeds lists a 50% discount for a family annexe, exemptions for some annexes, a carer's discount (35 hours a week or more) and discounts for apprentices and severely mentally impaired people. Each needs an application.
Money trouble
Leeds runs Local Council Tax Support, a discount for people on low incomes that can cut the bill to nothing, and has a page on what to do if you are struggling to pay. Contact the council before a payment is missed. The calculator does not include Support.
Instalments run either as ten payments from April to January or twelve from April to March, and the council can adjust them if you move in late in the year.
How the numbers were put together
Band charges, the 5.12% rise, the parish table and the police and fire shares were read from the Leeds City Council and the West Yorkshire police and fire pages on 12 November 2026. Discount rules come from GOV.UK and from Leeds City Council's own pages.
The calculator multiplies the Band D figure by the band's fraction and rounds to the penny. For the eight bands it reproduces the council's published full charge, the police figures and the fire figures exactly. A parish charge is added on the same basis, which is our method because the council publishes only the Band D figure. The family-annexe, carer, severely-mentally-impaired and empty-home rules are not in the calculator, so check them on the council's pages.
Written by the Best Leeds editorial team.