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Canara Bank Tax Saver Scheme

Canara Bank’s five-year Tax Saver Scheme under its Fixed Deposit/Kamadhenu streams, with ₹100 minimum, ₹1.5 lakh maximum, multiple payout modes and a death exception to the normal no-preclosure rule.

First-party evidencePublished researchReviewed September 10, 2026Active
Current five-year rate evidenceCanara’s domestic callable schedule below ₹3 crore is effective 17 March 2026; the five-years-to-ten-years rate is 6.25% p.a. general and 6.75% p.a. for eligible resident senior citizens.
Qualifying amount / lock-inMinimum ₹100 in ₹100 multiples; maximum ₹1.5 lakh per person; fixed five-year tax-saver period.
Preclosure / loan restrictionCannot be pledged as collateral and cannot normally be closed prematurely; Canara explicitly states an exception in the event of the depositor’s death.
Tax-law / maturity conditionThis tax-saver is held apart from Canara’s ordinary callable and non-callable rate structures even when its five-year rate is sourced from the current domestic schedule.
Research processPublished by littleden.blog

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2 first-party sources
Last checkedSeptember 10, 2026

Recorded source review date, not a claim that the product changed that day.

Maintenance stateWithin scheduled review window

Target recheck: October 10, 2026.

Critical decision facts

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01 · Current five-year rate evidenceCanara’s domestic callable schedule below ₹3 crore is effective 17 March 2026; the five-years-to-ten-years rate is 6.25% p.a. general and 6.75% p.a. for eligible resident senior citizens.
02 · Qualifying amount / lock-inMinimum ₹100 in ₹100 multiples; maximum ₹1.5 lakh per person; fixed five-year tax-saver period.
03 · Preclosure / loan restrictionCannot be pledged as collateral and cannot normally be closed prematurely; Canara explicitly states an exception in the event of the depositor’s death.
04 · Tax-law / maturity conditionThis tax-saver is held apart from Canara’s ordinary callable and non-callable rate structures even when its five-year rate is sourced from the current domestic schedule.
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Comparable tenure points

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Research matrix: Tenure; General; Eligible senior
TenureGeneralEligible senior
5 years6.25%6.75%

Rate basis: Canara Tax Saver is a five-year FD/Kamadhenu scheme; current domestic callable sub-₹3Cr schedule effective 17 March 2026. · Effective/reference date: March 17, 2026

Rate history

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Observed September 12, 2026
Current Canara domestic callable 5Y–10Y rate below ₹3Cr: 6.25% general / 6.75% eligible resident senior.

Canara Tax Saver is a five-year FD/Kamadhenu scheme; current domestic callable sub-₹3Cr schedule effective 17 March 2026.

Maintained terms

Fees, balances, benefits, limits and eligibility without a single-score shortcut.

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Current five-year rate evidenceCanara’s domestic callable schedule below ₹3 crore is effective 17 March 2026; the five-years-to-ten-years rate is 6.25% p.a. general and 6.75% p.a. for eligible resident senior citizens.
Qualifying amount / lock-inMinimum ₹100 in ₹100 multiples; maximum ₹1.5 lakh per person; fixed five-year tax-saver period.
Deduction context / payoutMonthly discounted or quarterly payout under the Fixed Deposit stream, or quarterly compounding under Kamadhenu. Qualifying principal can fall within the aggregate statutory deduction ceiling; interest remains taxable/TDS-applicable.
Preclosure / loan restrictionCannot be pledged as collateral and cannot normally be closed prematurely; Canara explicitly states an exception in the event of the depositor’s death.
Taxpayer / regime eligibilityIndividuals, Karta of HUF and permitted joint formats under current Canara terms; tax deduction in a joint deposit is attached to the first holder subject to current law/regime.
Tax-law / maturity conditionThis tax-saver is held apart from Canara’s ordinary callable and non-callable rate structures even when its five-year rate is sourced from the current domestic schedule.
Fit & cautions

Who this record appears designed for—and what can break the fit.

Best-fit wording summarizes the published proposition. It is not individualized financial advice or an approval prediction.

Potential fit

Eligible public-sector-bank depositors who want a low minimum tax-saving FD and value a clearly documented death exception and payout-mode choices.

Verify before relying
  • The deduction is part of the aggregate ₹1.5 lakh Section 123 / Schedule XV framework and is not available under the new concessional tax regime under Section 202; individual tax circumstances can differ.
  • From 1 April 2026, current tax-year references should use Section 123 read with Schedule XV of the Income-tax Act, 2025; some bank product copy still uses the legacy Section 80C label.
  • The death exception is not ordinary liquidity and should not be presented as a normal premature-withdrawal option.
  • Interest is taxable/TDS-applicable even though the qualifying principal can support a deduction.
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Current-use rule

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Research boundary

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