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The Santa Barbara Tax Products Group, which formed early this year, has gotten into the refund loan business as widely expected in the tax industry. While the company issued no formal statement, its Web site is offering 28- to 48-hour Refund Anticipation Loans. Enrollment for those who offered RALs through another program is open through December 19.
SBTPG was formed when a management group got backing to buy the bank products operations of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. The bank had to dispose of the operations when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last December refused to let it continue its RAL program. The new company received backing from Meta Bank for its refund transfer products, but did not obtain funding for refund loans.
New electronic return originators who did not offer RALs last year and who are new to SBTPG will be eligible to enroll only in the company's refund transfer programs. No fee schedule has yet been posted to the site.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind
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