Ignite Consulting Partners turned to their music library to mark last week’s beginning of the Internal Revenue Service accepting federal tax returns for the current filing season. To explain what this part of the calendar can mean for independent and ... [Read More]

We’re now a year and a half into the upward march for bankruptcies. Reinforcing findings from the Consumer Stress Legal Index (CSLI) recently shared by LegalShield, data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy last week showed total bankruptcy filings jumped 17% year-over-year ... [Read More]

As America’s Car-Mart put it, “It’s quite a (toy) story.” The buy-here, pay-here dealership network celebrated the most successful effort for its annual Holiday Toy Drive, collecting 31,016 toys and delivering them to 31 children’s hospitals in the company’s 12-state ... [Read More]

FormRush distributed some intriguing unemployment analysis that might help buy-here, pay-here operators and special finance departments at other dealerships with their underwriting and collections efforts, especially in 10 locations. Susy Bento is the senior data scientist at FormRush, which provides ... [Read More]

It’s a challenging time to be in the car market. A host of colliding economic factors have reduced new car production, limited dealer inventory and driven the cost of new and used vehicles to record highs. At the same time, ... [Read More]

Jan. 29 will be an important day for buy-here, pay-here dealerships. The Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday that Jan. 29 is the official start date of the nation’s 2024 tax season when the agency will begin accepting and processing ... [Read More]

Total 2023 bankruptcy filings increased 18% year-over-year, but Epiq AACER put that notable rise in context. According to data provided by Epiq AACER on Wednesday, total bankruptcy filings in 2023 came in at 445,186, which was up from the 2022 ... [Read More]

Wow, another year ended, and a new one has started. Grandma always said life is like a roll of toilet paper; closer to the end the faster it goes! These years are about down to eight months now it seems. ... [Read More]

While one specific case triggered a triple-digit spike in commercial filings, individual bankruptcy filings jumped 21% year-over-year in November, according to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy. Epiq reported total bankruptcy filings came in at 37,860 in November, up from 31,187 ... [Read More]

Byrider honored more than a dozen different operators when the buy-here, pay-here dealership chain presented annual awards to its franchise body during the company’s annual convention in Marco Island, Fla., last month. Byrider chief executive officer Craig Peters said, “These ... [Read More]