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Article: Show me the refund. (harbor maintenance fee)
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- Florida Trend
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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The 12-year-old tax is found unconstitutional, and the real winners are tax cheats.
Elated exporters thought they'd stumbled onto buried treasure: The U.S. Supreme Court said earlier this year that nearly $2 billion in taxes that the government had collected on exports was unconstitutional and had to be returned. But it could be a long, long time before the government shows exporters the money, and those who never paid the tax are sitting prettiest.
Since 1986, the government has imposed a "harbor maintenance fee" on exporters, freight forwarders, shippers and others who use ports to send goods abroad. The U.S. Customs Service collected the fee and turned it over to the ...
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