IMHO, the best tax guys are 51% honest and 49% lying, cheating crooks. Better than the average politician. Yep, you can get away with anything and everything until or unless you catch an audit. Then it becomes a question of you making an "honest" mistake -in which case you just get to pay through the nose- or whether they think you are a genuine crook- in which case you get to share a new home with Bubba... Bob-O
On Jul 27, 2013, at 3:18 PM, danbo...@gmail.com wrote: Methinks you are correct on the form Bob-o; our clients bean counter must use some clever definitions of "main" Dan Sent from my iPod On Jul 27, 2013, at 14:36, Bob-O Schultze <bo...@electronconnection.com> wrote: > Here is IRS Form 5695. You can hand them a copy and they can make the > determination themselves. As Allan says, we ain't tax advisors. I see on the > dsireusa.org website that it says that the PV system does not have to be on > your primary home, but my reading of this form would seem to indicate > otherwise. It defines a home as: > Home. A home is where you lived in 2012 and can include a house, houseboat, > mobile home, cooperative apartment, condominium, and a manufactured home that > conforms to Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards. > It also defines a "Main" home: > Main home. Your main home is generally the home where you live most of the > time. A temporary absence due to special circumstances, such as illness, > education, business, military service, or vacation, will not change your main > home. > Now, perhaps an expert bean-counter can work his/her magic on that, but > methinks we'd be dumb asses to try it. > Bob-O > <f5695.pdf> > On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:45 PM, frenergy wrote:
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