{"id":3641,"date":"2011-09-16T13:33:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2015-04-06T00:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T00:55:57","slug":"no-more-refund-anticipation-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/no-more-refund-anticipation-loans","title":{"rendered":"No More Refund Anticipation Loans from H &#038; R Block Franchises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Loans On Your Pants by morgan.davis, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/morgandavis\/4239340538\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2727\/4239340538_88082fb3f9.jpg\" alt=\"Loans On Your Pants\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you don&#8217;t know what <strong>RAL&#8217;s<\/strong> are, \u00a0here&#8217;s the dealio;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refund\u00a0Anticipation\u00a0Loans<\/strong> are one to two week loans made by banks and <strong>offered by tax preparers<\/strong>, secured by a taxpayer\u2019s\u00a0anticipated\u00a0<strong>tax refund<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>These types of loans and checks<\/strong> are usually targeted to lower-income people, and often consumers who don&#8217;t have formal banking relationship, as a way for them to pay for tax-preparation services without any out-of-pocket expense \u2014 and to get their refunds faster.<\/p>\n<p>Tax preparers (<em>and the banks that fund such loans<\/em>) charge high up-front fees for the loans, which have long drawn consumer advocates&#8217; ire. <em>Negative publicity<\/em> is one of several factors that have led to a decline in demand for the loans; another is improvements in tax-refund delivery technology. Read more at\u00a0<strong><a title=\"rals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Refund_anticipation_loan\">Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ever since the Internal Revenue Service announced that it will no longer provide tax preparers and associated financial institutions with the so called, &#8220;<em>debt indicator<\/em>, which is used to facilitate refund anticipation loans, tax preparation firms like H &amp; R Block have been scrambling to find ways to fund these types of loans.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a recent <strong><a title=\"franchise press releases\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/press\/Article.jsp?articleid=52784\">H &amp; R Block Press Release<\/a><\/strong>;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;H&amp;R Block announced today that it will not offer refund anticipation loans (RAL) during the 2012 tax season. However, the company will continue providing low-cost financial solutions next year<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting. It goes on;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We evaluated our options to determine what was best for our clients, the business and our shareholders,&#8221; said Bill Cobb, H&amp;R Block president and CEO. &#8220;Knowing we had a strong 2011 tax season without RALs, our analysis did not present a compelling reason to bring back the product in 2012<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chi Chi Wu, a staff attorney at the <strong><a title=\"national consumer law center website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nclc.org\/images\/pdf\/whats_new\/pr_advocates-applaud-block-dropping-rals.pdf\">National Consumer Law Center<\/a><\/strong> said that, \u201c<em>We have criticized these loans as high cost and risky for over a decade, and we are pleased that H &amp; R Block has actively decided not to offer them<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far, none of the other <strong><a title=\"franchise direct tax franchises\" href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisedirect.com\/taxfranchises\/51\">Tax Preparation Franchises<\/a><\/strong> have followed suit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Should they?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of loans, there&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s crucial these days, if you&#8217;re going to be applying for a small business loan. (Besides good credit.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"get one of these\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/no-business-plan-equals-no-small-business-loan\">You&#8217;ll need one of these bad boys<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"affiliate banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biz2credit.com\/administrator\/components\/com_jarc\/uploaded_files\/300-25012531964761.jpg\" alt=\"affiliate banner\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Just in case you don&rsquo;t know what RAL&rsquo;s are, &nbsp;here&rsquo;s the dealio; &nbsp; Refund&nbsp;Anticipation&nbsp;Loans are one to two week loans made by banks and offered by tax preparers, secured by a taxpayer&rsquo;s&nbsp;anticipated&nbsp;tax refund. &nbsp; These types of loans and checks are usually targeted to lower-income people, and often consumers who don&rsquo;t have formal banking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franchise-news","category-retail-franchises"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No More Refund Anticipation Loans from H &amp; 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