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Federal Bank Tax Savings Deposit

Federal Bank’s five-year Tax Savings Deposit with ₹100 minimum, ₹1.5 lakh maximum, quarterly compounding and no normal premature withdrawal or loan facility.

First-party evidencePublished researchReviewed September 10, 2026Active
Current five-year rate evidenceFederal states that Resident Term Deposit rates also apply to Federal Tax Savings Deposits. Under the schedule effective 17 August 2026, the above-48-months-to-10-years band is 6.40% p.a. general and 6.90% p.a. for eligible resident senior citizens.
Qualifying amount / lock-inMinimum ₹100 and thereafter in ₹100 multiples; maximum ₹1.5 lakh; fixed five-year lock-in.
Preclosure / loan restrictionPremature withdrawal is not permitted and loan facility is unavailable. Federal’s product page lists a broader set of account-opening entities than the tax-law deduction applies to, so opening eligibility and deduction eligibility are not treated as identical.
Tax-law / maturity conditionFederal explicitly maps this product to its Resident Term Deposit rate ladder; exact five-year pricing is therefore evidence-backed from the current schedule.
Research processPublished by littleden.blog

Structured from first-party bank/issuer evidence. This page does not claim personal hands-on product use unless that experience is explicitly stated.

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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A headline deposit rate is incomplete without the dated schedule, tenure band, customer category and premature-withdrawal rules.

01 · Current five-year rate evidenceFederal states that Resident Term Deposit rates also apply to Federal Tax Savings Deposits. Under the schedule effective 17 August 2026, the above-48-months-to-10-years band is 6.40% p.a. general and 6.90% p.a. for eligible resident senior citizens.
02 · Qualifying amount / lock-inMinimum ₹100 and thereafter in ₹100 multiples; maximum ₹1.5 lakh; fixed five-year lock-in.
03 · Preclosure / loan restrictionPremature withdrawal is not permitted and loan facility is unavailable. Federal’s product page lists a broader set of account-opening entities than the tax-law deduction applies to, so opening eligibility and deduction eligibility are not treated as identical.
04 · Tax-law / maturity conditionFederal explicitly maps this product to its Resident Term Deposit rate ladder; exact five-year pricing is therefore evidence-backed from the current schedule.
Exact product-type evidence

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Comparable tenure points

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Research matrix: Tenure; General; Eligible senior
TenureGeneralEligible senior
5 years6.40%6.90%

Rate basis: Federal explicitly says Resident Term Deposit rates apply to Federal Tax Savings Deposits; schedule effective 17 August 2026. · Effective/reference date: August 17, 2026

Rate history

Dated deposit-rate snapshots.

Effective-date evidence is preserved instead of silently replacing an older rate when a bank reprices new deposits.

Observed September 12, 2026
Federal resident rate applicable to Tax Savings Deposits: exact five-year falls in >48m–10y at 6.40% general / 6.90% eligible senior.

Federal explicitly says Resident Term Deposit rates apply to Federal Tax Savings Deposits; schedule effective 17 August 2026.

Maintained terms

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

These six fields are the cross-product layer. The specialist section above controls whenever a type-specific field is more precise.

Current five-year rate evidenceFederal states that Resident Term Deposit rates also apply to Federal Tax Savings Deposits. Under the schedule effective 17 August 2026, the above-48-months-to-10-years band is 6.40% p.a. general and 6.90% p.a. for eligible resident senior citizens.
Qualifying amount / lock-inMinimum ₹100 and thereafter in ₹100 multiples; maximum ₹1.5 lakh; fixed five-year lock-in.
Deduction context / payoutQuarterly-compounded maturity value, proof-of-investment certificate availability and qualifying principal within the applicable aggregate deduction framework. Interest remains taxable/TDS-applicable.
Preclosure / loan restrictionPremature withdrawal is not permitted and loan facility is unavailable. Federal’s product page lists a broader set of account-opening entities than the tax-law deduction applies to, so opening eligibility and deduction eligibility are not treated as identical.
Taxpayer / regime eligibilityFederal publishes product-opening eligibility including individuals and HUFs plus some non-individual entities; the tax deduction itself is modeled only under the current statutory eligibility/regime rather than generalized to every opener.
Tax-law / maturity conditionFederal explicitly maps this product to its Resident Term Deposit rate ladder; exact five-year pricing is therefore evidence-backed from the current 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 Federal Bank customers who want a five-year locked deposit whose current rate can be tied directly to Federal’s resident term-deposit schedule.

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.
  • Federal’s product page still uses legacy Section 80C wording and lists some entities that should not be assumed to receive an individual/HUF tax deduction.
  • Interest remains taxable and periodic TDS can affect reinvestment maturity value.
Maintained comparisons

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First-party source ledger

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Current-use rule

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Research boundary

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