Misleading Advertisment of SBI Bank FD

Be cautious of misleading advertisement published by SBI in all leading news paper showing annualised yield of 17.77% on 5 Year tax saving Fixed deposit.
 

It considers investor to be in the highest tax bracket and also that 80C limit of Rs.100000.00 is not exhausted. It also doesn't consider taxability of interest earned.

PPF is still a better option if you wish to invest for tax saving as the interest earned would by 8.6% (subject to change every year but much better then SBI FD) as compared to tax free interest of above FD i.e 6.39% (9.25 less 30.9% of 9.25%)