A large carrier asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to pay back millions in taxes applied to the diesel fuel used to power the company’s refrigerated trailers.
In a complaint filed on June 16, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Springfield, Missouri-headquarted Prime Inc. petitioned the IRS for a refund of federal fuel excise tax collected between 2018 and 2021 in the amount of $11,016,644.
Prime says that it seeks “recovery of taxes wrongfully collected under the internal revenue laws” with respect to diesel used to power refrigerated units on the company’s trailers…