"elections give you the illusion you have a choice, you don't....... George Carlin

Of course the businesses paid them. They paid the tax bills. If they ever get their money back and surcharged their customers ( like Fed Ex did) they can decide what they want to give back to their customers. Maybe if they get a windfall of restitution they can decide to pass the good will on to their future customers or not. Not their fault consumers paid more. Maybe Consumers can class action for some money back like the government appears to be making business do?

BTW wasn't the story that all these foreign countries were paying the tariffs?

Are you hitting the sauce?

I guess I'll answer your questions since nobody answered mine about easy or hard.

The people and business who actually imported and paid the illegal duties should get the money back, because its the law and the government should not end up with any money from this. Ideally, the government should lose money on this whole mess.

Some companies are planning to reimburse their consumers they surcharged. However, who is responsible for all cost of the effort time and effort companies will have in paying these duties and consumers and the resulting paperwork and legal fees?

It’s hard to say how it is going to shake out.

I do question anytime “anybody “ says “other countries “ are paying these taxes…

The small consolation is that income tax time is my turn to prepare the books.

Just wanna know why they take $1200-$1500 out of each check and it still end up getting back only like $1200 if I'm lucky ???

Someone has to pay for welfare and nation building. Thanks for your contribution

Because you’re not in charge of telling them how much money you made, someone else is. Self employment is the best way to thwart this,despite the government’s oppression of people that drive this country…as opposed to the minions that just get a check from the man and blindly slave onward….lol

Your government knows best, Wolfdog.

Welcome to the world of responsible adulthood. Just wait until the take that much or more and still have to write a check at the end of the year

Dirt I'll answer your question, it should be hard. Why not, everything else is

It should be just as hard for the taxpayers to get a refund for all the fraudulent monies that are stolen with the help of inept and corrupt politicians that are supposed to oversee the money that was confiscated from me.

Don't forget the opportunity costs incurred by those who paid the illegal taxes.

The damages could get ugly. I think the taxpayers may get off cheaper if they just stop fighting and start paying. Sounds like the governments new tariffs will be found illegal too. Rinse and Repeat.

New section 122 taxes

I would assume most businesses passed on tarriffs cost to the consumer or they're dumb. Saying they would track down and rebate their customers is dumber , never going to happen.

"NEW YORK (AP) — Delivery company FedEx said in a statement on Thursday that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them."

Reuters

Of course the whole idea is to encourage “ made in America “, what’s wrong with that?

I can see FedEx doing that because they have all the shipping documents that show who paid what.

Be pretty much impossible to do that with retail businesses

Promoting an American worker first is the antithesis of globalism.

The only cure is a sound money standard

"What this Means:
Tariffs on goods used by a large number of U.S. firms, like steel, make it difficult for U.S. producers to compete against foreign rivals, both at home and in export markets. Tariffs on steel may have led to an increase of roughly 1,000 jobs in steel production. However, increased costs of inputs facing U.S. firms relative to foreign rivals due to the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum likely have resulted in 75,000 fewer manufacturing jobs in firms where steel or aluminum are an input into production. In addition, depressed global demand for durable consumption and investment goods related to policy uncertainty and increased costs from the trade war may be dampening demand for steel and weighing on steel prices. Tariffs on additional inputs into production made with steel are likely to exacerbate these adverse effects on the manufacturing sector."

PIIE

Some ideas are wrong.

"The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine."

JP Morgan Asset Management

Either Tariffs or we all work for peanuts like the third world countries you want to buy cheap junk from.