BillM223
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Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Please look at page 4 at the Residential Energy Efficient Property Credit Limit Worksheet—Line 14 in the form 5695 ....

 

You will see that a lot of credits - like the Child Tax credit - take precedence over the solar energy credit.

 

P.S. when calculating the credit, you didn't include the cost of a new roof, did you? All the solar companies tell you that you can add a new roof to the calculation, but that just isn't true...

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