Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs
The Trump administration has begun accepting applications from businesses seeking refunds for more than $166bn in tariffs, months after the supreme court ruled that the president had no legal authority to impose them.
The administration launched on Monday the digital claims system, named Cape, which they said in court filings could handle about 63% of affected import filings, with the remainder to follow.
Writing for the majority in February, Chief Justice John Roberts said the 1977 emergency statute Trump had invoked provided no such sweeping authority to implement the tariffs. Two of the president’s own appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, joined the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh were the dissenters.
What about the people who actually paid the tariffs?
If you have receipts for the tariffs you paid you should be able to apply for your refund.
So the receipts for basically everything I’ve bought for the past year or so? Got it.
No - for the tariffs you paid specifically.
Technically speaking you didnt pay the tarrif, you paid the inflated price due to tariffs. The compnay/person paying for the import paid the tarrif.
Its like when you buy a coconut at the store. You didn’t technically pay for the shipping of it, but that cost was reflected in the price.
So then
You can’t get a refund for something you didn’t pay for directly. If this administration actually cared they could have given a tax rebate back directly to the consumers since we know the vast majority of importers passed the cost along to consumers.
You can’t present just a groccery bill, you’d have to prove which items were impacted by the tarrif and by how much.
Obviously not, hence the obvious answer “they get fucked”