Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim recommends using a Cash ISA to hold an emergency fund because interest and other returns inside an ISA are tax-free and do not need reporting to HMRC. He outlines ISA types (Cash ISA, Stocks & Shares ISA, Lifetime ISA, Innovative Finance ISA), explains the ISA annual allowance as £20,000, and contrasts Cash ISAs with regular savings accounts where interest may need declaring (speaker mentions savings-allowance figures: £500 and £1,000). He frames ISAs as a way to "protect" savings from tax.
Questions this video answers
£20,000
£500 and £1,000 (speaker said: '500... 1,000 for the basic rate taxpayer').
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Now the question is, where should I save my emergency fund? I prefer the cash ISA. I simply prefer the cash ISA. Why? Because of the question. Remember the question Dr. Kyrilos asked? He said, oh, do I have to now have to tell HMRC if I get a Kobo or a dime anywhere, I get it? No, but when is the cash isa? All the money that comes from it, whether it's interest, whether it's dividend, whether it's return on investment or any of those things, they don't necessarily have to be. There's no tax on them. So you don't really need to declare anything. It's just in your Cash ISA. Okay? Cash ISA is one of the ISAs. There's Stock and Shares ISA, and there's Lifetime ISA, and there's Innovative Finance ISA. Now, to understand the ISAs, you must think of them like a big pie, a secular pie. And that secular pie is 20,000. Everything that goes into it is £20,000. Okay, good. Now, no matter what you do, you cannot go above that 20,000. If you go above 20,000, you can still invest. Like there are many years I, I have to go above the 20,000. I decided I want to invest more, but I will not get any that ISA benefit because I've gone above 20,000. Now, number one is the simplest is cash ISA. Cash ISA is basically a savings account. You put your money, you save your money. The only difference between cash ISA and other types of ISA is that if you get savings in a savings account and you pass the savings allowance, which data gate we said was 500, right. For a higher rate taxpayer, 1,000 for the basic rate taxpayer. So the difference is that in cash isa, if you get an interest or not, you don't need to declare it. There's no tax on it. It's not even mentioned because the cash isa, I think it's a good place to save your emergency fund. Obviously, if your faith is different and you're thinking around interest is different, then you don't even have to, you know, you don't have to use a cash isa. You can just use a regular account. But the problem with that is you then need to then start dealing with interest, declaring it and messing about with it. Okay? So that's why cash ISA think of ISA more like a tax protector. So anything you want to do, if you put it through an ISA before doing it, then you have already protected it from tax. Okay? Right.
