RobertB4444
Employee Tax Expert

Deductions & credits

The local utility is a rebate and is used to reduce the deductible amount.  The other one sounds like an incentive which is not a return of what you spent but a credit and would not reduce the deductible amount.

 

@mrsmaz 

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