# Refund

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- Modified: 2023-07-25T21:14:33+00:00
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## Definition

The (partial) repayment of the purchase price of a good for reasons such as faults in manufacturing or dissatisfaction with the service provided. - The payment of expenses incurred in advance, such as traveling expenses to the employer or purchased medicines to the health insurance company. - The return of the amount collected by the tax office [CH: Steueramt; revenue office] in excess of the tax liability (an amount paid back by the tax office because of an overcollection). - A payment to - exporters, especially of agricultural products, who sell goods abroad at world market prices that are lower than the producer price in the domestic market, or - importers who import products from more expensive foreign countries and can only sell them on the market at the lower domestic price. - See absorption amount, export tax, import equalization tax, refund, prohibitive system, unit of account, European, cyclical. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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