Cash ISA

With the end of the tax year ISA deadline fast approaching, many providers have upped their cash ISA rates for savers who also have a current account with them. But does loyalty really pay? MoneySavingExpert.com investigates.

ISA savers will soon have the flexibility to be able to take money out of their ISAs and put it back in, without it counting towards the annual ISA allowance, Chancellor George Osborne has announced today.

With exactly one month to go until the end of the tax-year when savers will lose their tax-free allowance if they don't use it by 5 April, MoneySavingExpert.com explains how you can split your cash between easy-access and fixed cash ISAs.

ISA season is nearly upon us. That's the frenzied time around the 5 April tax year close, when many desperately scrabble to set up their ISA before the deadline. And the push continues on 6 April when a whole load more people open their new tax year ISA on the first day.

Banks may have to make it easier to compare and switch cash savings accounts if plans announced by the City regulator today are put in place.

HSBC e-ISA customers should diarise to transfer their cash as the bank has confirmed interest rates will tumble from October.

Over one-and-a-half million Barclays NISA customers will see their rates drop this autumn as the bank will be moving most of its old NISA customers onto a new deal.

If you've taken advantage of your tax-free ISA allowance every year since the accounts were introduced in 1999, you should check how much you've saved as you may now have breached the UK's £85,000 safe savings limit.

ISAs transform into NISAs (New ISAs) today, meaning everyone can now put £15,000 into cash or shares savings without paying tax on it.

16 and 17-year-olds can save up to £19,000 tax-free this year under today's ISA revamp, meaning they could net £100s in interest if they put the maximum amount away.