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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68734</law_id><section_number>6.2-2500</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>59.1-200</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Other Financial Activities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="25">Refund Anticipation Loans</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Applicant</span>&#x201D; means a <span class="dictionary">customer</span> who applies for a <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span> through a <span class="dictionary">facilitator</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Borrower</span>&#x201D; means an <span class="dictionary">applicant</span> who receives a <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span> through a <span class="dictionary">facilitator</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Customer</span>&#x201D; means an individual for whom tax preparation services are performed.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Facilitator</span>&#x201D; means a <span class="dictionary">person</span> who receives or accepts for delivery an application for a <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span>, delivers a check in payment of <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span> proceeds, or in any other manner acts to allow the making of a <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span>. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Facilitator</span>&#x201D; does not include a bank, thrift, savings association, industrial bank, or credit union, operating under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the United States or the Commonwealth, an affiliate that is a servicer for such an <span class="dictionary">entity</span>, or any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who acts solely as an intermediary and does not deal with an <span class="dictionary">applicant</span> in the making of the <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Refund anticipation loan</span>&#x201D; means a loan, whether provided through a <span class="dictionary">facilitator</span> or by another <span class="dictionary">entity</span> such as a <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span>, in anticipation of, and whose payment is secured by, a <span class="dictionary">customer</span>&#x2019;s federal or state income tax refund or by both.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">Refund anticipation loan</span> fee</span>&#x201D; means any fee, charge, or other consideration imposed by a lender or a <span class="dictionary">facilitator</span> for a <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span>. The term does not include any fee, charge, or other consideration usually imposed by a <span class="dictionary">facilitator</span> in the ordinary course of business for nonloan services, such as fees for preparing <span class="dictionary">tax returns</span> and fees for the electronic filing of <span class="dictionary">tax returns</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">Refund anticipation loan</span> fee</span> schedule</span>&#x201D; means a list or table of <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span> fees</span> that (i) includes three or more representative <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span> amounts; (ii) lists separately each fee or charge imposed, as well as a total of all fees imposed, related to the making of a <span class="dictionary">refund anticipation loan</span>; and (iii) includes, for each representative loan amount, the estimated annual percentage rate calculated under the guidelines established by the federal Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;1601 et seq.).
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Tax return</span>&#x201D; means a return, declaration, statement, refund claim, or other document required to be made or filed in connection with state or federal income taxes.</p></section></text><history>2006, c. 399, &#xA7; 6.1-474; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
