Wal-Mart To Issue Cash Tax Refunds In Stores

Wal-Mart will offer cash tax refunds to taxpayers this year at all of its stores. And the big box retailer won’t charge customers to pick up their refunds.

Wal-Mart is touting the “Direct2Cash” program as more convenient than cashing a check, but of course it also conveniently puts customers in Wal-Mart with cash in hand.

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• Maggie Lake, business reporter for CNN. She tweets @maggielake.

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