17 December 2012
From AY 2013-14 Rs 10000/- deduction is available form Saving Bank Interest u/s 80TTA.
Section 80TTA has been introduced from this Financial Year [2012-13] and it allows to an Individual or HUF from his gross total income if it includes any income by way of interest on deposits (not being time deposits) in a savings account a deduction amounting to : (i) in a case where the amount of such income does not exceed in the aggregate ten thousand rupees, the whole of such amount; and (ii) in any other case, ten thousand rupees. If such savings account is maintained in a (a) banking company to which the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949), applies (including any bank or banking institution referred to in section 51 of that Act); (b) co-operative society engaged in carrying on the business of banking (including a cooperative land mortgage bank or a co-operative land development bank); or (c) Post Office as defined in clause (k) of section 2 of the Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), For this section, “time deposits” means the deposits repayable on expiry of fixed periods.