Personal Savings Allowance - Housewife

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Does a housewife who pays no income tax (as no income) have a personal savings allowance?
Or can you save as much as you want, regardless of how much interest you earn and none of it gets taxed? So if you earn £5K in interest in a year and don't have any other income being a housewife do you keep it all? What if you earned £30K in interest?
Or can you save as much as you want, regardless of how much interest you earn and none of it gets taxed? So if you earn £5K in interest in a year and don't have any other income being a housewife do you keep it all? What if you earned £30K in interest?
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£ 5,000 savings starter rate tax free
£ 1,000 savings tax free.
£18,570 tax free total.
Saving money for well over half a century
As this is a housewife then it's entirely possible she only has a Personal Allowance of £11,310 so all the figures drop by £1,260 meaning tax would be paid above £17,310 not £18,570.