My Bad Kharma Continues…
I have had a shitty week and it is only Tuesday. The latest, I was checking my credit card activity online and noticed a charge for $5.60 for a Moneyback Tax Recharge. No idea what that could be so I googled and got only spam sites. This was enough of a concern for me to call the credit card agency. As I am talking to security, I got disconnected. Nice touch douchebags! Anyway, second time more luck and the details of the charge were “international, made without the card (over the phone/internet) to a movie store or gift shop”. None of that apparently set off any red flags within their IT infrastructure. So I have to cancel the card and get a new one. Right at the end of the month when I have less than $50 in checking. Nice. 2007 is starting off with a lot of douchebaggery and now it is time to watch the State of the Union!
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 @ 6:05 pm 
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February 26th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I just got one of these charges too, for $12.61. Same deal — international charge w/o the card to a gift shop. I called my credit card company, and they told me to contact the merchant to see what it is, probably hoping that I’ll give up and let it slide so they don’t have to do any work. I’m not hopeful that I’ll hear anything from the merchant, but I sent an email to the address on my statement. We’ll see …
February 26th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Update: A moneyback tax refund is when you get refunded the sales tax on overseas purchases. I did this in Ireland in June.
http://www.moneyback.ie/
Maybe a moneyback tax recharge means that I or they screwed up the paperwork somehow, and they’re taking back my refund? I’ll keep spamming with updates …
July 19th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I just got a charge for $12.60 on my card. I was in Ireland a few months ago but I didn’t submit a tax form. I did buy a few things in the duty free shop though…
Should I try to fight this?
Thanks for your reply
-Peter Alber
August 4th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
This is a charge that occurs when you go to a different country and you do not pay tax on an item, then when you return back to the US you do not hand in the correct paperwork making you exempt from the tax or you have not spent the minimum requirement to not pay tax.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
I just got one of these charges too and I did submit a form…before I left Ireland…But then again I also bought at the duty free so maybe that’s why I’ve been charged? My charge was $20.20. I went to that site (Thanks) and sent an email.
Very strange.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:07 am
I went to Ireland in May and filled out the forms necessary for a tax refund. Unfortunately, you have to give your charge account info that purchases were made on. This was left in a box at Shannon Airport.
My charge company said that to dispute this I must close my charge account and be reissued a new card.
If I don’t close the account, any future transactions by this company? may not be disputed. So you may want to close your acount and repopen ro protect yourself. Visa wan’t able to tell me exactly where it
occured.The charge was $24.97. Not a lot, but once they have your info they can keep on charging.