Edinburgh & Scottish Visitor Levy calculator
Bring your Airbnb, Booking.com and PMS exports into one workspace. Check the bookings that don't add up, keep each client's figures separate, and prepare your return for visitorlevy.scot with the records to explain it.
Checking Edinburgh tourist tax? Start with the worked calculation guide. Not VAT registered? Or check your Airbnb host fees.
First property free · No card required · Your booking file never leaves your browser unsanitised
Managing properties for several owners? See the agency workflow.
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Find the guidance for your council
Prepare a return or explore a proposed scheme, with links to the official sources.
Edinburgh first Visitor Levy return
Checkout-date reporting, the October 2026 filing window and payment deadlines.
View guidance Calculation guideCan you deduct platform commission?
Where Edinburgh and national guidance differ, with a £450 booking worked both ways.
View guidance Agency workflowSeveral properties, separate client returns
A practical way to organise booking exports, review differences and prepare each client's figures.
View guidancePreparing for a future scheme? Check the booking-date guidance for Aberdeen or West Dunbartonshire.
Visitor Levy is a new liability with real detail
Night caps, VAT treatment, booking-date cutoffs, bundled breakfast deductions, and per-council rates all affect the final figure. Getting it slightly wrong across a whole quarter of bookings adds up — and spreadsheet formulas don't catch data problems like duplicate rows or a net-payout column mistaken for gross earnings.
One calculation engine, every booking
Every calculation — the free calculator, a manually entered booking, or a thousand-row import — runs through the same engine, so a return never drifts from what the free calculator would have shown for any individual stay. Before you file, Return Readiness tells you exactly what still needs attention.
How it works
Import
Drop in an Airbnb, Booking.com or PMS export. We detect the format and suggest a column mapping you confirm.
Audit
Every booking is checked against what your platform reported — accuracy, completeness and integrity, not just a total.
Resolve
Work through flagged discrepancies one by one, with a full calculation breakdown and a recorded reason for every override.
Prepare
Return Readiness tells you exactly what's outstanding before you file — not after.
File
Take the prepared figures to visitorlevy.scot, then record what you filed and paid alongside a clean audit trail.
Built for every kind of accommodation provider
Hosts & short-term lets
Import your Airbnb or Booking.com export directly — the first property is free.
Hotels & B&Bs
Room counts, bundled breakfast per-guest-per-night deductions, and VAT handled per property.
Letting agents
Manage every client's properties and returns separately, with guaranteed data isolation between clients.
Every figure comes with its working
No black-box totals. Every calculation — free calculator or full return — includes a plain-English, step-by-step explanation of exactly how the number was reached, from the night cap through to the provider retention allowance.
See the full methodologyEdinburgh — 8 night stay, £800 total
- 1. Only 5 of 8 nights are chargeable under the night cap.
- 2. £500.00 of the £800.00 is pro-rated as eligible (5⁄8 of the total).
- 3. Levy: £500.00 × 5.00% = £25.00.
- 4. Provider retention: £0.50.
- 5. Estimated net amount due: £24.50.
Privacy-first imports
Your booking file stays in your browser. Column mapping, source detection and PII stripping all happen locally — only the sanitised, levy-relevant fields (dates, amounts, currency) are sent to your account. Guest names, emails, phone numbers and addresses are never transmitted.
Read the full privacy architectureReturn Readiness, not just a total
Before you file, see exactly what's outstanding: bookings needing review, an unconfirmed VAT setting, a missing availability declaration, or scheme data that hasn't been re-verified. Each issue links straight to where it's fixed.
Council coverage
View all councilsWe only mark a council “live” once its scheme is confirmed and verified — we never guess a rate or start date.
Simple, usage-based pricing
Full pricing detailsFree
first property, then £4.99/property/mo
Free
first room, then £1.19/room/mo
Free
first bed, then £0.29/bed/mo
£3.49
per managed unit/mo
Check the workflow with a worked example
Follow three fictional bookings through a collection check, including an eight-night stay and a cancellation. Then test one property from your own portfolio, compare the output with your source records, and measure the time needed to prepare a return.
Get your first property's return ready in minutes
Free calculator, free first property, no card required.