Can i get full EV tax credit of $7500 if the family income is less than 75k filing jointly?

[DoninGA]

The EV credit is based on the taxes on your taxable income.  You can be eligible for the EV credit if your Modified Adjusted Gross Income is $300,000 or less when filing jointly.

If you have a tax liability (Line 22 of the Form 1040) of $7,500 or more then the EV credit on a new vehicle will reduce your tax liability by $7,500 (depending on vehicle make and model).  If your tax liability is less than $7,500 the EV credit can only reduce your liability to 0 and any remaining credit is lost.

[venkat0544]

So what if the IRS owes me money meaning i get the tax refund from the IRS and would i still get full amount of $7500 of EV Tax Credit as well as whatever the the money which IRS owes me after filing jointly?

[DoninGA]

Yes.  You will get a refund of your tax payments to the IRS.  If your tax liability is reduced to 0 and you do not have any self-employment taxes then you will get a full refund of all the tax payments you made during the tax year.

[Mike9241]

while you would qualify based on AGI. The issue is what is your tax. $75K of family taxable income would be reduced by, as a minimum a standard deduction of about $28K that leaves you with taxable income of $47K. assuming no qualify additional tax or credits the tax on the $47K is only about $5200 which means you would lose about $2300 of the max EV credit of $7500  

[Opus 17]

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@venkat0544 wrote:

So what if the IRS owes me money meaning i get the tax refund from the IRS and would i still get full amount of $7500 of EV Tax Credit as well as whatever the the money which IRS owes me after filing jointly?

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Sort of.

Your tax liability is what the IRS gets to keep after all is said and done.  Suppose you paid $6000 by withholding and you get a $1000 refund.  Your  tax liability was $4000.   Or suppose you paid $5000 by withholding and owed a further $1000 with your return; your tax liability for the year was the same $6000.

The maximum credit is $7500 or your tax liability, whichever is less.  So in the example above, if you paid $6000 by withholding and you expect a $1000 refund, you would actually get a full refund of the $6000 withholding, but only $5000 would be the EV credit and the rest of the credit would be lost.  In that example, if you had some way of temporarily raising your taxable income, you could apply the rest of the credit and not pay tax on whatever that income was.  For example, selling stocks or other investments that have increased in value.  Or, converting an IRA to a Roth IRA or a pre-tax 401k to a Roth 401k.  That creates a tax bill (to be offset by the credit) and then your Roth investments are tax-free forever.   But it must be completed before 12/29/23.)