Tråd: Regeringen ønsker EV/PHEV rabatter; Forhandlere frygter dem; Og IRS??

Skattefradrag af $7500 bliver udspurgt-og til tider vildt anvendt.

Husk på, at elbiler og plug-in hybrider af tilstrækkelig batterikapacitet i øjeblikket kvalificere sig til en føderal skat kredit på $7500. Lad os understrege ord: kredit, noget, der kommer til næste års indkomst skat arkivering, ikke på det tidspunkt, EV/PHEV køb.

Denne sidstnævnte tilbagebetalingstid er mere korrekt betegnes som en rabat. Og med den føderale regering opmuntring af denne automotive technology, Sen. Deborah Stabenow, D-Mich. har foreslået at dreje dagens $7500 skattefradrag til en rabat.

Dette, dog, har National Automobile Dealers Association bekymret for, at theyd være dem—ikke den Internal Revenue Service—opgave med at vurdere lovligheden af cash back for hver enkelt kunde.

Ikke, at SKATTEMYNDIGHEDERNE har sat særligt høje standarder i denne forbindelse. Ifølge Lektor Tryk, en Treasury Department rapport siger, at næsten 13.000 mennesker fejlagtigt hævdede nogle $33 millioner i EV/PHEV skattefradrag i løbet af de første seks måneder af 2010. Dette svarer til omkring 20 procent af $163. 9 millioner i tildelte point.

Det er ikke klart, at nogle skatteydere werent bare forvirret. Men Id er nødt til at undre sig over dem, der hævder $7500 kredit for deres Hummer H3, Dodge Durango og Cadillac Escalade. Giver mulighed for at give delvis kredit (dog ikke i dollars) til den fyr, med en golfvogn.

I virkeligheden, har SKATTEMYNDIGHEDERNE anerkendt, at visse af sine egne ansatte havde indtastet fejlagtige påstande. Og der var 29 fanger, der modtog $49,926 i forskellige køretøjets kreditter-på trods af, at de er i røre i hele 2009.

Tax credits of $7500 are questioned—and sometimes wildly misapplied.

Recall that electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids of sufficient battery capacity currently qualify for a federal tax credit of $7500. Lets stress the word: credit, something that comes at next years income tax filing, not at the time of EV/PHEV purchase.

This latter payback is more correctly termed a rebate. And with the federal governments encouragement of this automotive technology, Sen. Deborah Stabenow, D-Mich. , has proposed turning todays $7500 tax credit into a rebate.

This, however, has the National Automobile Dealers Association worried that theyd be the ones—not the Internal Revenue Service—tasked with determining the legitimacy of the cash back for each customer.

Not that the IRS has set especially high standards in this regard. According to The Associate Press, a Treasury Department report says nearly 13,000 people wrongly claimed some $33 million in EV/PHEV tax credits during the first six months of 2010. This amounts to about 20 percent of the $163. 9 million in allotted credits.

Its not clear that some tax payers werent simply confused. However, Id have to wonder about those claiming the $7500 credit for their Hummer H3, Dodge Durango and Cadillac Escalade. Lets give partial credit (though not in dollars) to the guy with the golf cart.

In fact, the IRS acknowledged that some of its own employees had entered erroneous claims. And there were 29 prisoners who received $49,926 in various vehicle credits—despite their being in stir throughout 2009.