Your Money: Savers seek new options
Moves by the state to get people spending mean it's not so attractive to save money, but there are still some interesting deposit possibilities, writes Barry J Whyte.
Last year's budget saw finance minister Michael Noonan heap greater pain on Irish savers in the form of a whopping 8 per cent increase in the deposit interest retention tax (Dirt), in an effort to coerce people to spend their cash rather than sit on it.
Meanwhile, the overall suite of interest rates on offer from Irish banks has continued to decline in recent years - and most experts see no reason for ...
