Anchor Accounting Services manages the full IEEPA tariff recovery process for U.S. importers. We identify affected entries, prepare CAPE-compliant filings, monitor claims and coordinate the tax treatment of potential funds. Your team stays focused on running your business while AAS handles the administrative burden.
Anchor Accounting Services provides two straightforward operating tracks structured to handle the technical lifting required by the evolving CAPE portal environment.
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Built for importers who absorbed IEEPA duties through landed costs and require a complete partner. If your records are scattered across multiple customs brokers, or if your lean internal finance team lacks the bandwidth to navigate portal errors, this track handles the entire project.
We extract the data, build phase-compliant files, navigate Treasury ACH hurdles, and manage the post-submission review window.
Designed for customs brokers, CPA firms, trade attorneys, and investment groups who manage portfolios of tariff refund receivables but lack the backend infrastructure to process claims at scale.
Anchor serves as your backend execution engine, transforming raw files into clean, CAPE-compliant CSV submissions to help protect payout timelines.
Anchor Accounting Services eliminates this headache by handling the entire process for you:
You don't need to manually hunt down thousands of old shipping bills. Our team pulls your records directly from federal trade streams to save you time.
We pre-screen and group your entries, separating clean claims from complex files to completely avoid bulk system rejections.
Once your claim is submitted, we actively monitor it, track portal errors and handle government follow-ups during the 45-day review window.
The government requires all refunds to be sent electronically. We configure your accounts, verify your routing details, and check for any federal offsets to ensure your money arrives safely.
Complete our intake framework to evaluate your import activity, potential tariff exposure and corporate Importer of Record status.
Finalize business profiles. Execute your engagement terms, Letter of Authorization (LOA) and IRS Form 8821.
Our technical team plugs directly into federal trade streams to pull your historical records across all past customs brokers.
We clean and group your entries into filing batches that match the government's strict formatting rules.
We submit your claims to the active filing portal, track the logs, and actively manage the process through potential payout.
Federal lawsuits and changing rules threaten to freeze the streamlined CAPE portal. Waiting or filing alone means risking a 19% portal rejection, missing tight deadlines or facing multi-year court delays.
Anchor Accounting Services eliminates the friction. We pull your data directly from federal streams, isolate immediate refund opportunities, and manage the entire tracking process on an award basis.
Everything importers, brokers, and partners ask about the IEEPA recovery process.
An IEEPA tariff refund is a potential recovery pathway established after the Supreme Court ruled that emergency tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unconstitutional. If your business imported merchandise between March 2025 and February 24, 2026, and paid or deposited these duties, you may be eligible to file a claim.
Yes. Anchor Accounting Services aggregates and reconstructs entry-level data across disparate broker networks, reconciling your trade footprint into clean, phase-compliant CSV filing batches.
Yes. The right to pursue an IEEPA tariff refund remains tied to the entity that acted as the official Importer of Record (IOR) on the original customs entry summaries. Even if the financial burden was downstream or absorbed through a vendor invoice surcharge, the validation path must still run through the registered IOR number.
Our direct IEEPA Concierge track operates on a purely award-based fee model with zero upfront costs. The tiered fee is due only upon the government's official award of the refund. If no refund is awarded, no fee is owed.
Once a clean CAPE Declaration is accepted, CBP reports an estimated internal processing tail of up to 45 days to review, liquidate, and queue the entry summaries for electronic disbursement, assuming no clerical errors or compliance challenges are encountered.
CAPE (Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries) is the dedicated electronic refund processing module built by CBP inside ACE. It enforces rigid validation rules and dictates whether your entries are pushed into immediate Phase 1 collection channels or deferred to downstream tracks.
Yes. By executing a specialized Letter of Authorization (LOA) and a standard Power of Attorney, you authorize Anchor Accounting Services to serve as your operational back-office infrastructure to manage technical submissions and track updates.
Yes. Reclaiming historical duty principal and capturing associated statutory interest represents a non-operating financial event that carries explicit corporate tax obligations. Anchor Accounting Services integrates tax advisory and compliance mapping directly into our closeout process to support your financial planning.
