Fife council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £1,573.70 a year

The cheapest band, A, pays £1,049.13; the dearest, H, pays £3,855.57. 26% of Fife’s 178,206 homes are in Band B.

Band D costs £1,573.70 a year: £157.37 over 10 payments or £131.14 over 12. 12% of Fife’s homes are in this band.

Fife, street by band. Walls rise to the yearly charge (one scale for all councils); each house is as wide as its band’s share of homes (chargeable dwellings, September 2026, Scottish Government). Narrow bands are kept visible.

Too narrow to draw to scale, so shown at a minimum width: Band H 0.2% of homes.

Every band in Fife

A year	Over 10 payments	Over 12 payments	Homes
£1,049.13	£104.91	£87.43	21%
£1,223.99	£122.40	£102.00	26%
£1,398.84	£139.88	£116.57	13%
£1,573.70	£157.37	£131.14	12%
£2,067.67	£206.77	£172.31	14%
£2,557.26	£255.73	£213.11	8%
£3,081.83	£308.18	£256.82	4%
£3,855.57	£385.56	£321.30	0.2%

Water and sewerage charges are not included in these amounts. Homes are chargeable dwellings as the Scottish Government counts them, not the Valuation Office Agency count of properties used in England and Wales. Monthly figures divide the yearly charge, rounded to the penny.

About Fife’s figures

Fife Council's Band D for 2026/27 is £1,573.70, compared with £1,498.76 in 2025/26. The rise of £74.94, or 5.0%, is the second smallest among Scotland's 32 councils; only the City of Edinburgh's was lower.

Ten years earlier, in 2016/17, Band D in Fife was £1,118.00, so the charge has gone up by 40.8% over the decade. Fife was then 22nd of the 32 councils by Band D; in 2026/27 it is 28th, with only four Scottish councils charging less. These amounts leave out water and sewerage charges.

The Scottish Government counts 178,206 chargeable dwellings in Fife, the third highest number in Scotland. Band B is the most common, with 46,991, and Band A follows with 38,279. A Band A dwelling pays £1,049.13 on average, a Band B dwelling £1,223.99 and a Band H dwelling £3,855.57; 438 dwellings are in Band H.

Above Band D the steps between bands are wider in Scotland. In Fife, Band E costs £2,067.67, 31% more than Band D, whereas in England Band E is always 22% above Band D; Band H is 2.45 times Band D, against exactly twice in England. Band E is also more common than Band D in Fife, with 24,708 dwellings against 22,164.

Source: Scottish Government, Council tax datasets, accessed 4 November 2026.

How Fife’s Band D compares

Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Fife it is £1,573.70 a year. Across the 32 councils in Scotland the simple average of Band D is £1,661.92, and 4 of them charge less than Fife.

The dearest Band D in Scotland is Midlothian at £1,816.16; the cheapest is South Lanarkshire at £1,468.47.

Where Fife’s homes sit

The biggest share of homes, 26%, is in Band B. Bands A to C together hold 61% of the 178,206 homes, and bands E to H hold 26%.

Homes are counted as: chargeable dwellings, September 2026, Scottish Government.

Check your own band

The letter is printed on your council tax bill. To look up any home, use the official services: England and Wales or Scotland. Band by Band cannot tell you the band of an address.

Band D in every council