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Notes on UK savings and tax

Short pieces on what your savings actually earn after tax, by Hannah Reid.

• The Personal Savings Allowance hasn't moved since 2016. Everything around it has.

  14 August 2026

  Frozen at £500 for higher-rate taxpayers since 2016, while the base rate went from 0.5% to 3.75%. What that means for what you actually keep.