Published
March 12, 2025
Updated
August 3, 2026
The proposed Victoria’s Secret Missouri tax settlement identified eligible online shoppers for automatic refunds. Its scheduled June 2025 hearing has passed, but the official public materials do not currently post a final approval order or distribution notice.
Current Status
No claim form was required, but the public status is stale. The court preliminarily approved the proposed settlement in February 2025 and scheduled a final approval hearing for June 2, 2025. The official site and notice available for this update do not post a final approval order or confirm that automatic payments were distributed, so a passed hearing should not be treated as proof of approval or payment.StatusPreliminary Approval; No Public Final Update
Claim FormNot Required for Identified Class Members
Proposed FundApproximately $3.14 Million
ProofAutomatic Payment Based on Purchase Records
What Was the Missouri Tax Lawsuit About?
The lawsuit alleged that Victoria’s Secret charged certain Missouri consumers a tax rate higher than the applicable vendor’s use tax rate on remote purchases. The challenged transactions involved physical products ordered through the company’s website or another remote sales channel and shipped from outside Missouri to a Missouri delivery address.Victoria’s Secret denied applying an improper tax rate and denied wrongdoing. The proposed settlement was negotiated to avoid the expense and uncertainty of further litigation and did not amount to an admission that the plaintiff’s allegations were correct.
Who Was Included?
The proposed class covered people who made qualifying Victoria’s Secret remote purchases between May 18, 2016, and May 18, 2023. The company had to be responsible for calculating the tax, the product had to be shipped from outside Missouri to a Missouri address, and the transaction had to reflect a rate above the vendor’s use tax rate.Consumers who received a full refund on a qualifying purchase were excluded for that purchase. A partial refund could still leave an additional amount eligible under the settlement calculation.
How Were Payments Supposed to Work?
Identified class members did not need to submit a claim form. The administrator was to calculate an automatic payment from Victoria’s Secret transaction data based on the qualifying purchase amounts, the vendor’s use tax calculation, the class population, and the net money available.The notice offered a payment-method selection form for consumers with a Web Registration Code. If no selection was made and Victoria’s Secret had an email address on file, the notice contemplated an automatic electronic payment to that address. That historical option should not be presented as a currently open claim process.
Was Proof Required?
The ordinary benefit was automatic and based on defendant records, so class members were not asked to prove each purchase through a new claim. Under OCA’s classification, this is an automatic-payment settlement rather than a no-proof claim.The Web Registration Code was used to select a payment method, not to establish a new right for someone absent from the class data. OCA cannot add a purchaser to the administrator’s records or calculate an individual refund.
What Approval Has Been Confirmed?
The public notice confirms preliminary approval on February 3, 2025 and a scheduled fairness hearing on June 2, 2025. Preliminary approval authorized notice and allowed the court to consider the proposal after the objection and exclusion period.The official materials available publicly for this update do not include a final approval order. Because the hearing date has passed, it would be inaccurate to say the case is still awaiting the scheduled date, but it would also be inaccurate to treat the date alone as proof that final approval was granted.
Have Automatic Payments Been Confirmed?
The notice stated that payment would follow final approval and resolution of any appeals. It did not itself confirm a completed distribution. No current official homepage update or posted distribution notice was available to establish that payments were sent.This is therefore a stale-no-public-update stage. That label does not prove that no individual received money; it means the available official public record does not support a stronger statement about final approval or completion.
Can Anyone File a Claim Now?
There was never a general claim form for the automatic benefit. The deadlines in May 2025 concerned exclusion, objection, and payment-method selection, not a new open application for anyone who shopped at Victoria’s Secret.An old selection form or notice code should be handled only through the official website. Do not send purchase histories, PayPal credentials, or private account information to OCA.
How Is This Different From the FACTA Voucher Settlement?
This case concerns alleged Missouri tax overcharges on remote purchases and proposed cash refunds based on transaction records. The separate FACTA case concerned card digits printed on certain in-store receipts and distributed store vouchers after a claims process.A person’s eligibility for one case does not establish eligibility for the other. The class periods, conduct, geographic scope, benefits, and administrator websites are different.
What Should Potential Class Members Do?
Potential class members should review the official settlement site for any newly posted order or distribution notice and retain the original emailed or mailed notice. The official record, not an estimated timeline, controls the status.Until a public final order or payment update appears, readers should avoid assuming that a refund is currently claimable or that a payment date is guaranteed.
Official Information
Review the latest information on the official Victoria’s Secret Missouri tax settlement website.
Case
Lizama v. Victoria’s Secret Stores, LLC et al.
Cause Number
21SL-CC0221
Court
Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri
Class Period
May 18, 2016–May 18, 2023
Proposed Fund
Approximately $3.14 million
Preliminary Approval
February 3, 2025
Scheduled Hearing
June 2, 2025
Current Public Record
No final approval or distribution notice posted
Official Website
official Victoria’s Secret Missouri tax settlement
For more class actions, recalls, and refunds, keep scrolling below.
