How is Council Tax calculated?
Council Tax is made up of several charges:
- a charge for Wirral Council services (including Adult Social Care)
- a charge for the Liverpool City Region combined authority
- a charge for Merseyside Police services
- a charge for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority services
The table below gives a breakdown of these charges for each property band for 2026-27.
| Wirral Council | City Region | Police | Fire and Rescue |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,387.58 | £16.00 | £195.98 | £67.50 | £1,667.06 |
| B | £1,618.84 | £18.67 | £228.64 | £78.75 | £1,944.90 |
| C | £1,850.11 | £21.33 | £261.31 | £90.00 | £2,222.75 |
| D | £2,081.37 | £24.00 | £293.97 | £101.25 | £2,500.59 |
| E | £2,543.90 | £29.33 | £359.30 | £123.75 | £3,056.28 |
| F | £3,006.42 | £34.67 | £424.62 | £146.25 | £3,611.96 |
| G | £3,468.95 | £40.00 | £489.95 | £168.75 | £4,167.65 |
| H | £4,162.74 | £48.00 | £587.94 | £202.50 | £5,001.18 |