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The City of Edinburgh Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Baile Dhùn Èideann) is the local government authority covering the City of Edinburgh council area. Almost half of the council area is the built-up area of Edinburgh , capital of Scotland .
Each council area is divided into a number of wards, and three or four councillors are elected for each ward. [1] There are currently 1,227 elected councillors in Scotland . [ 5 ] Local elections are normally held every five years and use the single transferable vote electoral system. [ 1 ]
Visitors to Edinburgh will be charged a tourist tax designed to raise £50m annually, after city councillors voted in favour of the move. ... City of Edinburgh Council has said the levy of 5% will ...
Local politicians in Edinburgh have approved a tourist tax for visitors staying overnight the Scottish capital, introducing the first charge of its kind in the United Kingdom.. From mid-2026 ...
Scotland’s first visitor levy could see tourists pay extra to stay from July 2026
City of Edinburgh Council in Scotland holds elections every five years, previously holding them every four years from its creation as a single-tier authority in 1995 to 2007. Council elections [ edit ]
The creation of a devolved Scottish parliament in 1999 was accompanied by a limited transfer of taxation powers: the Scotland Act 1998 transferred the power to legislate for local taxation and also the power to vary income tax by plus or minus 3 pence in the pound. Most taxation powers in Scotland following the creation of the parliament ...
21 August – Aberdeen City Council announces that several hundred properties in Aberdeen affected by Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete are to be demolished and rebuilt at a cost of £150m. [243] 22 August – Edinburgh City Council votes to introduce a tourist tax that it hopes will raise around £50m a year. [244]