Vanessa A
Expert Alumni

Get your taxes done using TurboTax

You could potentially do that if you are 100% sure you will qualify for the $7,500 credit.  However, if anything would change, including tax laws that take away that credit or you buy the car, hate it and sell it, you would end up having to pay an underpayment penalty.

 

If you pay them when they are do, you eliminate the potential for the underpayment if the credit would be changed. 

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