Within the next month I’m about to spend a lot of money on replacing everything in my new, old weekend house: roof, heat, water heater, insulation, doors, garage door, windows, appliances, etc. All of which is eligible for a hefty federal tax credit if this were my primary home.<\/p>\n
I don’t consider this my primary home, but I can’t find the tax man’s definition. Common sense tells me my primary home is where I spend most of my time. Is this right? My accountant says the definition is kind of vague, but I’m no longer so keen on him. (Too many non-answers!) <\/p>\n
I’m not interested in cheating on my taxes. Life’s too short . But I might make more expensive\/energy-efficient choices were I to get a tax credit (look into solar etc) which I think if the govt’s aim.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Within the next month I’m about to spend a lot of money on replacing everything in my new, old weekend house: roof, heat, water heater, insulation, doors, garage door, windows, appliances, etc. All of which is eligible for a hefty federal tax credit if this were my primary home. I don’t consider this my primary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-41794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/03\/tax-creditsener\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Tax Credits\/Energy Efficiency","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/03\/tax-creditsener\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/03\/tax-creditsener\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Taxes","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ringo"}],"creator":["Ringo"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-03-11T13:50:00Z","datePublished":"2010-03-11T13:50:00Z","dateModified":"2010-03-16T06:43:50Z"},"rendered":"