Tax Refund Anticipation Loan - RAL

Finance a la shmoop what our bond anticipation notes revenue anticipation

notes and tax anticipation notes? and yeah a whole lot of anticipation going

on there all right a few things in life are certain one of them is that there [People watching movie]

will always be another James Bond movie coming out and we will all anticipate it

and um well that's kind of what anticipation notes are all about, minus the

massive explosions ticking bombs and cars that squirt oil out of the tailpipe

when a municipality or company wants to fund a project but

just can't wait to issue a larger number of bonds or more money or fatter dough [Stack of cash appears]

to get going with the union construction workers building parking lots and

whatever else it is they want then they can issue bond anticipation notes... these

are short-term smaller bonds issued before a larger funding project like

anticipating the large bonds that they just know are coming in but can't wait to get

started so let's go raise the money today right when the company or

municipality makes a larger bond issue later while they can use the money from [Money transfers to company]

that issue to pay for the bond anticipation notes, like borrowing

from Peter to pay Paul sorta so that's a bond anticipation note and the same

applies to revenue anticipation notes like let's say you're guaranteed a

million dollars from the NFL for the purchase of your super duper lemonade to [Check for super duper lemon appears]

be paid on the day after the Super Bowl well the NFL's credit is good they pay

their bills odds are really good you'll deliver what you promised to the NFL to

slake the thirst of the thirsty and yelling in theory you could issue a note

ahead of that blessed event go Packers! and collect the million bucks

ahead of when NFL pays you paying whatever risk premium to your investors [Money transfers to investors]

ie they might pay you nine hundred fifty grand today for a million bucks a week

or two or three from now when the Super Bowl is over while in real life these

kinds of "revenues" are really more like fundings and

they apply to very short-term muni bonds usually which are trying to bridge cash [Pile of money falls]

needs from today until they can actually raise the dough from John Q local Public

Citizen well tax anticipation notes are yet another flavor of the same drink tax [Person opens can of cola]

anticipation notes rely on the fact that the city will collect X dollars in taxes

so many months from now they issue bonds today using that expected tax money that

they just know is coming in as collateral so that they can you know pay

for stuff today so yeah those are bond anticipation notes, revenue

anticipation notes and tax anticipation notes be sure to watch our equally

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