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Electric vehicles. Solar panels. Even farm improvements. Here's a tip sheet on how to take advantage of the incentives and tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act.

For the resale tax credit, the used electric vehicle must be at least 2 years old, and it can only qualify once for the subsidy.The law can also help people who need to upgrade their home electric panel to handle EV charging and other new electrical devices.

The law says they have to “meet or exceed the highest efficiency tier” of the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, a nonprofit standard-setting group. That means the appliances generally must be more efficient than Energy Star-certified products. And the consortium doesn’t even rate propane or oil-fired products, according to John Taylor, the group’s deputy director.A heat pump stands outside a property as part of a green housing project.

The credits for heat pumps or biomass stoves and boilers also wouldn’t count against the $1,200 annual limit for the home energy efficiency tax credit detailed in the previous section.A subsidy could even be available for people who don’t have thousands of dollars on hand to pay for a new heat pump. The high-efficiency electric home rebates should also cover half or all the cost of upgrading electric panels up to a $4,000 limit. Other covered services are electrical work, with a $2,500 max, and insulation projects, up to $1,600.Republican governors who opposed the Inflation Reduction Act“There’s going to be guidance issued by the Department of Energy on how state energy offices can do this,” Rewiring America’s Calisch said of the rebates.

The longevity of the tax credit should come in handy for homeowners looking to go solar, said Justin Baca, vice president of markets and research at the Solar Energy Industries Association. In the past, many customers encountered a rush to get projects done by the end of the year, hoping to claim the higher tax credit before it declined. Now, consumers won’t feel the same time pressures.One of the most overlooked aspects of the law is the $20 billion made available to farmers.

Take the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, or EQIP as the long-standing environmental stewardship program is known. EQIP will receive $8.5 billion under the Inflation Reduction Act, the most of any agricultural program. Farmers can receive federal funding to plant cover crops, add trees that form wind breaks along their fields, and restore wetlands and riparian areas. All these things could help reduce emissions, Faber said.

 

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1: you have to be one of those, less than 50% of Americans, that actually pays federal income tax.

The inflation reduction act is a lie!

“Be a wealthy homeowner in a blue state”

Oh great, I can get back some of the tax money that you stole, while knowing that it is pennies on the thousands of dollars that I. My children , great grandchildren and beyond will be burdened with. GEE THANKS Joe Milarky Biden & Klan.

No one can afford any of this.

Thx for letting citizens know that to get all these wonderful items on the list all anyone has to do is spend a lot of money. So it actually benefits the wealthy who could do all these things & the government wouldn't need to spend taxpayer money.

Tell the Pres send me the 50K to do all this and I will be happy to improve a few things . Until then piss off

All those measures cost FAR more than the incentives and tax credits - including that price of those measures just jumped by the amount of those incentives and tax credits. Thanks, y’all just priced those measures out of my reach.

Democrats helping their elitist friends. More tax savings for them. Increased taxes for us.

First step: get a lotta money...

Too much income divide. That's for the rich people not the poor!

Many are too poor for that many fast food places the rich don't go to are closing in many towns. The banks underwriter to the poor = 'Sorry your income is too low!' Problem the wages are too low!

Now show us where we get money for this

Yes…all the people struggling with higher prices in their daily life will now suddenly go out and buy an EV, have a charging station built at their home, buy a new air conditioner along with new doors and windows.

So government is handing out coupons now?

IF you have the money to put down and can wait for tax returns to recoup . I think 70% of people don't. I fear this bill helps few of us and the rest will get nothing

The source of environmental destruction is overpopulation. In the last 70 years, the world's population has doubled.

Sad day in our Country. This is bs.

'It won't be easy' but at least we have the progressives fooled for the midterms.

Do we need money or can we print ours like Biden and his HouseDemocrats did..

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