Talk:Individual savings account

message: Obviously to save money; but what does the Government get out of it?
I have heard it said that an ISA is a form of tax avoidance; this was countered by someone saying the Government uses the money fron ISAs in a similar way to general taxation.
If the latter is correct, how is this achieved?92.28.1.163 (talk) 21:11, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: What's the point of an ISA?

message: This artoicle lack references. Who has critcised ISA's as confusing and who caimed they were for the middle classes?--195.26.238.4 06:35, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: references

message: Ironically, ING also calls their savings account the same thing - does this deserve any mention? Krupo 21:04, Sep 5, 2004 (UTC)
:There is no irony.  The only thing they have which is called an individual savings account (ISA) is a cash ISA exactally as described in the article and most companies call their ISA an ISA (why call a spade anything but a spade?) Dainamo 17:11, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: other

message: Is ISA an acronym sounding like "icer" or an initialism eye-es-ay?  I ask because of the footnote in American and British English spelling differences#Acronyms and abbreviations, which says The Guardian spells it Isa, which would be unusual for an initialism.  jnestorius(talk) 21:08, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/isa/index.htm Guidance Notes for PEP and ISA Managers - removed.Vernon White . . . Talk  18:24, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken ext link removed

message: "The Fund Supermarkets do not offer the entire range of ISA eligible collective funds nor do they allow investment directly into specific stocks or shares."
That's strange, because I invest in stocks and shares in my ISA through a fund supermarket. 
I believe they do.  Hargreaves Landsdown do in their vantage ISA, as one example -- but I'm sure there are others. 80.177.214.113 (talk) 20:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fund Supermarkets

message: I believe that people can have ISA with different companies in different years. ie Barclays one year and NatWest the next. This article does not make this clear - if I ffttt6trd     am correct
PHowell  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.68.39.78 (talk) 14:09, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple accounts

message: Having just had a "difference of opinion" with a financial adviser about the meaning of "over 50" in the changes to investment limits in 2009, I've added a clarification to the article. I'm currently not over 50; my 50th birthday is in January 2010. However the changed rules include anyone (such as myself) whose 50th birthday falls before 6th April 2010. Why the various glossy brochures mince about with sentences like "if you'll be 50 or above before 6th April 2010" (a verbatim quote from a Scottish Widows brochure) rather than simply stating "if your date of birth is before 6th April 1960" I don't know; perhaps they're trying not to remind us 49-ers that the big Five Oh is on its way. 81.129.207.108 (talk) 23:40, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes for "over-50s" in 2009 

message: It seems to me that the ISAs we have now are mini ISAs, except that the total annual allowance may now be invested in a S&S ISA, whereas previously you needed a maxi ISA in order to invest the whole lot in S&S.
What happened to existing maxi ISAs when they were abolished?  Did each one just become two separate accounts with the same provider, or what? — Smjg (talk) 22:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The abolition of mini/maxi ISAs 

message: I'm surprised to see no mention of this here.  When ISAs first came out, we were told that the cash allowance would be £3000 only for the first tax year and would then be lowered to £1000.  Then this change was postponed a year.  I don't remember whether this plan was further deferred before being scrapped altogether.  Does anyone have information on the history of the plan for the future of the ISA to add here?  Moreover, what was the plan in the early days for what would happen to the annual stocks and shares allowance? — Smjg (talk) 22:26, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does anyone else here remember the original plan? 

message: I've reverted Tony1's move to the lower case title form. See a Google search which shows it always capitalised and Proper_noun#Specific_designators along with its examples like Central Intelligence Agency differentiated from prose use of a central intelligence agency. This is a specific product name, not merely an account held by an individual. Hence the move to lower case form breached the article naming policy. Jamesday (talk) 03:18, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move reverted 

message: The last line in the 'Tax treatment' section ends in "as £2.2 billion i".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.64.172.106 (talk) 17:27, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Truncated sentence - can someone fix it? 

message: Text in future tense, so going to rewrite in present as they are now available, and add in a few more details / dates etc. Colinmcdermott (talk) 15:39, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  IF ISAs