About Us
Legal Authority Meets Operational Precision
Tariff Refund Solutions was built by people who've been through federal recovery before, and know the government never makes it easy to get your money back. We combine legal authority with enterprise-grade data and workflow architecture to recover what the government owes you.
Our Founders
The Team Behind the Recovery
Tax Attorney, Finance
Michael Williams is a California and Washington D.C.-licensed attorney with 15+ years in federal tax, complex litigation, and CFO-level advisory, admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of International Trade. A former Big Four advisor and CFO at multiple global companies, he has led the recovery of $550M+ in federal tax refunds.
Education
Automation Technologist, Finance
Gin Venuto is a finance and operations executive with 15+ years of multi-industry experience who architected the operational infrastructure behind the $550M+ federal tax credit recovery system.
Education
Why We Built This Program
When the Supreme Court struck down IEEPA tariffs, we recognized a pattern we've seen before.
The Employee Retention Credit is the clearest example. Congress created it during COVID. The law made it clear that money was owed. The companies that filed early and correctly got paid. Six years later, nearly 600,000 claims are still unprocessed. The IRS imposed a moratorium that still hasn't fully lifted, and dozens had to sue just to force the IRS to act.
Before ERC, The Harbor Maintenance Tax followed the same arc. $730 million owed. Two years to process. First movers collected while others waited.
We've recovered $550M+ across multiple federal recovery cycles. The pattern is always the same: the law is clear, but the government still makes it complicated. The companies that get protected early come out whole. The ones that wait get paid last, if at all.
IEEPA is following the same pattern. We built this program to protect importers through it.
Our Perspective on What's Ahead
Most importers are optimistic. They expect refunds will be automatic because the ruling was decisive. They may be right.
But our experience says the path between "the money is owed" and "the money is in your account" is never as simple as it looks. ERC proved that. Harbor Maintenance Tax proved that. The government's appeal posture and CBP rejecting corrections suggest the same thing is happening here.
That's why contingency is the right model for this moment. If the optimists are right and refunds come through quickly, our fee is minimal, and drops by half if the process is fully automatic. If it's more complicated, you're already fully protected and you still pay nothing out of pocket.
Either way, the downside of being covered is almost nothing. The downside of being uncovered, if the optimistic scenario doesn't play out, could be significant. We'd rather our clients be protected and not need it than need it and not have it.
How We're Different
We are not a BigLaw firm billing $1,500 an hour. We are not a claims trader offering 40 cents on the dollar. We are not an accounting firm that refers out the legal work when things get complicated.
We are an attorney-led recovery program. CIT-admitted. Contingency-based. Built for this moment. One engagement. Every pathway. No upfront fees.
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The cost of being protected is almost nothing. The cost of being wrong is your entire refund.