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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Refunds could be simple, just have companies and individuals claim them as deductions on taxes. Probably companies already do that, but let individuals who had to pay also do that. There will be receipts if the IRS wants to check [/quote]

Companies (and the very wealthy) keep receipts.  Others, not so much.  And companies (and the very wealthy) import.  Others just pay the eventual tariff inflated prices.  Accrual of payment across the broad public to the few at the top.

It's almost as if this was by design... :roll:[/quote]

You actually have to pay the tariffs to the US government to have a claim. If a business imports an item, pays tariffs, sell the item with a markup to cover the tariffs and a consumer buys the item at the higher price that consumer has no claim. [/quote]There's a legal claim and there's an economic claim.  Refund the tariff to whomever paid it to the government, but, unless the ultimate consumer actually paid the tariff, your simple solution, just generates a windfall profit to importer.[/quote]

Yup.  That was exactly the point of the "as if this was by design" post.[/quote]

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