---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1666e"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1666e"
heading: "Notification of credit card issuer by seller of return of goods, etc., by obligor; credit for account of obligor"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1666e"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — Consumer Credit Protection"
  - "Subchapter I — Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure"
  - "Part D — Credit Billing"
---

# §1666e. Notification of credit card issuer by seller of return of goods, etc., by obligor; credit for account of obligor


With respect to any sales transaction where a [credit card](/usc/15/1602.md?p=l) has been used to obtain [credit](/usc/15/1602.md?p=f), where the seller is a [person](/usc/15/1602.md?p=e) other than the [card issuer](/usc/15/1602.md?p=o), and where the seller accepts or allows a return of the goods or forgiveness of a debit for services which were the subject of such sale, the seller shall promptly transmit to the [credit card](/usc/15/1602.md?p=l) issuer, a [credit](/usc/15/1602.md?p=f) statement with respect thereto and the [credit card](/usc/15/1602.md?p=l) issuer shall [credit](/usc/15/1602.md?p=f) the [account](/usc/15/1681a.md?p=r-4) of the obligor for the amount of the transaction.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–321, title I, § 166, as added Pub. L. 93–495, title III, § 306, Oct. 28, 1974, 88 Stat. 1514.)