ISA

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.

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.

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

If you've opened a fixed-rate ISA since 6 April, you should hurry to top up your savings if you can afford to do so, as many providers have opened a short window for new money to be deposited following today's ISA revamp.

Savers torn between easy-access, fixed cash and regular saver ISAs can now open one of each in the same tax year at certain building societies and banks and still earn top rates, MoneySavingExpert.com has discovered.

It's a new tax year and everyone now has a new ISA allowance to use. But how do you to take advantage of the cheapest stocks and shares ISAs?

If you opened a Santander Direct ISA Saver last year, check your rate now. If you haven't upgraded, it could now be paying as little as 0.5%.

Savers can get up to 2.75% tax-free interest on cash put into an ISA. But with the deadline looming you need to use your ISA allowance now or you'll lose it.

The Chancellor pulled a rabbit out of his Budget back pocket today, which is probably why he's been sitting uncomfortably for so long. The shock news is that from 1 July, cash and shares Isas are to be merged into one new, much bigger £15,000 tax-free savings and investing pot.