Defend Your Dollars is the website of the Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign, where we support reforms to the financial marketplace to curb bad practices by banks and lenders.
Tax Refund Loans
Refund anticipation loans are loans secured by taxpayers’ anticipated tax refund. RALs cost 50 to over 500% effective APR and are repaid in less than two weeks by deposit of tax refunds from the IRS.
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