Jillian Bandes Recommend this article   For example, Scott Fink,
owner of Hyundai of New Port Richey, Florida, questioned why the
cash-for-clunkers payments couldn’t have been conducted without
any of the cash-for-clunkers paperwork that caused such a
massive headache. Fink suggested it simply be done via tax
returns.  “At the point of sale, we have a document – a
certification document. On that certification document, it had
the consumer, and the consumer’s signature, and the consumer’s
obligations. On the same document, there is a signature line for
me as a dealer,” he explained. “So why wouldn’t that be enough
to reimburse the dealers after they had fronted the cash-for-
clunkers rebates? Over time they could process and do it like
they do the tax return.”  Fink said the program had been such a
boom for the car industry that it could probably work for other
industries. And with over 530 clunkers moved, Fink’s dealerships
stand to make considerable profit from the program, so long as
the reimbursements come