The full 2026/27 band A to H charges for the East Riding, with police, fire and Beverley's town precept added in. Band D is £2,454.62. Bills rose 4.99 per cent.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council publishes its own share of your council tax band by band, but not the total. The police, the fire service and your town or parish council each publish theirs separately, and nobody puts the four together.

So we have. Below is the full 2026/27 charge for bands A to H, built from the four published components, with Beverley’s town council precept shown separately so you can substitute your own parish.

The full bill, band A to H

For a home in Beverley, all four parts of the 2026/27 bill:

Band Council + adult social care Humberside Police Humberside Fire Beverley Town Council Total
A £1,309.65 £209.11 £71.95 £45.71 £1,636.42
B £1,527.92 £243.96 £83.94 £53.33 £1,909.15
C £1,746.20 £278.81 £95.93 £60.95 £2,181.89
D £1,964.47 £313.66 £107.92 £68.57 £2,454.62
E £2,401.02 £383.36 £131.90 £83.81 £3,000.09
F £2,837.57 £453.07 £155.88 £99.05 £3,545.57
G £3,274.12 £522.77 £179.87 £114.28 £4,091.04
H £3,928.94 £627.32 £215.84 £137.14 £4,909.24

If you live outside Beverley, take your band’s row, drop the town council column, and add your own parish precept. That gives £2,386.05 at band D before any parish charge. The council’s banding and charges page has a filter tool that will give you the exact figure for your own parish.

At band D, Beverley’s £2,454.62 sits £62 above the England average of £2,392, and below the £2,490 average for unitary areas like this one.

Where the money goes

What makes up a band D council tax bill in Beverley, 2026/27 A band D bill in Beverley is £2,454.62. East Riding of Yorkshire Council general services take £1,633.32, the adult social care precept £331.15, Humberside Police £313.66, Humberside Fire and Rescue £107.92 and Beverley Town Council £68.57. A band D bill in Beverley: £2,454.62 Sources: East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Humberside PCC precept leaflet 2026/27, Humberside Fire Authority agenda 13 February 2026, Beverley Town Council precept calculation. East Riding of Yorkshire Council, general services £1,633.32 66.5% Adult social care precept £331.15 13.5% Humberside Police £313.66 12.8% Humberside Fire and Rescue £107.92 4.4% Beverley Town Council £68.57 2.8% Graphic by East Riding Today

The council itself is 80 per cent of the bill once you count the adult social care precept, which is part of the council’s own charge and not a separate body.

What changed this year, and by how much

Each of the four went up, at four different rates.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council: 4.99 per cent. That is 2.99 per cent on general services and 2 per cent on adult social care, the maximum allowed in 2026/27 without a referendum. At band D the council’s share went from £1,871.10 to £1,964.47, a rise of £93.37.
  • Humberside Police: 6.3 per cent, or £18.49 at band D, taking it from £295.17 to £313.66. That is above the normal referendum threshold. The Home Office approved an exceptional increase, and the Police and Crime Panel signed it off on 3 February 2026. Commissioner Jonathan Evison told residents he wished it “wasn’t necessary” but that “current government funding leaves little choice”.
  • Humberside Fire and Rescue: 4.85 per cent, or £4.99 at band D, from £102.93 to £107.92. The Fire Authority agreed it on 13 February 2026 after a consultation in which 37 per cent of respondents picked that option, the most of any. Even with the rise the service plans to draw on reserves.
  • Beverley Town Council: 6.59 per cent, or £4.24 at band D, from £64.33 to £68.57. Its total precept went from £411,550 to £450,265, an increase of £38,715. The town council says the rise is mostly for floral displays, plus allotment maintenance, employer National Insurance and utilities.

One body chose not to charge. The new Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority, led by an elected mayor, “has chosen not to precept on your council tax bill for 2026/27”. That is money not on the bill this year, and worth watching next February.

A number the council gets wrong on its own website

Two council tax pages on eastriding.gov.uk carry the same sentence with different figures. Its what your council tax pays for page says the council needs to collect “£255.6 million (including special expenses)”. Its how much council tax we need page says “£256.6 million (including special expenses)”. The budget table on that second page gives the council tax requirement as £255,016,691.

Both pages agree on the rest: gross expenditure of £1,174 million, up from £1,140 million, of which 21.8 per cent comes from council tax. Education takes the largest slice at £456.7 million, or 38.9 per cent, followed by adult social care at £309.3 million.

What band you are in, and how to challenge it

Bands are based on what a property was worth on 1 April 1991, not today. A house built last year is valued on what it would have been worth then.

Band Value on 1 April 1991
A Up to £40,000
B £40,001 to £52,000
C £52,001 to £68,000
D £68,001 to £88,000
E £88,001 to £120,000
F £120,001 to £160,000
G £160,001 to £320,000
H More than £320,000

Check your band with the free council tax band checker on GOV.UK. If you think it is wrong, you challenge it through the Valuation Office, not through the council. The council’s own advice is worth repeating: some companies charge a fee to do this for you, and while that is not illegal, it is free to do it yourself. If the challenge fails you can appeal to the independent Valuation Tribunal.

A property can also be taken off the band list entirely, so no council tax is due, if it is derelict, demolished, now in business use, or undergoing major renovation. Normal repairs do not count.

Discounts, and the ones people miss

The council lists 44 separate discounts, exemptions and disregards. The ones worth checking:

  • Single person discount: 25 per cent off if you are the only adult living there as your main home.
  • Full-time students do not pay at all. Halls of residence are exempt, and so is a property let solely to full-time students. A student who leaves their own home empty to study is also covered.
  • Severe mental impairment. An adult who is severely mentally impaired is disregarded entirely. The council’s own tagging on this includes Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and learning difficulties. This is one of the most under-claimed reliefs in the country.
  • Disabled Band Reduction Scheme, if the home is larger than it would need to be were it not for a disabled occupant.
  • Apprentices, student nurses, 18 and 19 year olds in full-time education and foreign language assistants registered with the British Council are all disregarded.
  • Annexes occupied by a relative, or unoccupied and used as part of the main home.
  • Empty after a death, or empty because the occupant has moved into care or moved out to give care elsewhere.

Apply through the council’s discounts and exemptions finder.

Second homes and empty houses: the trap when you buy

The premium on an empty property is severe, and it does not start from when you bought it.

Empty and unfurnished for Charge
Up to 1 year Normal rate
1 year Normal rate plus 100 per cent, so the bill doubles
5 years Normal rate plus 200 per cent, so the bill triples
10 years Normal rate plus 300 per cent, so the bill quadruples

Since April 2025 the same premium applies to second homes. In the East Riding that reaches a long stretch of coast, from Bridlington and Hornsea to Withernsea.

Here is the part that catches buyers. The council states that the empty period does not reset when ownership changes:

“If the property has already been unoccupied and unfurnished for 1 year or more, a premium may apply immediately.”

Buy, inherit or take a tenancy on a house that has stood empty for over a year and leave it that way, and you can be billed at double rate from day one. At band D in Beverley that is £4,909 a year rather than £2,454. Check how long a property has been empty before you complete, not after. There are exceptions to the premium, but you have to claim them.

Also on East Riding Today

Checked 26 August 2026. Council figures from East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s council tax pages; police figures from the Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner’s 2026/27 precept leaflet; fire figures from Appendix 2 of the Humberside Fire Authority agenda of 13 February 2026; Beverley figures from Beverley Town Council’s own 2026/27 precept calculation. The totals in the first table are our addition of those four published figures. Check your own bill before relying on it.