<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">IMHO, the best tax guys are 51% honest and 49% lying, cheating crooks. Better than the average politician. <div>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...<div>Bob-O</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 27, 2013, at 3:18 PM, <a href="mailto:danbob88@gmail.com">danbob88@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Methinks you are correct on the form Bob-o; our clients bean counter must use some clever definitions of "main"</div><div>Dan</div><div><br><br>Sent from my iPod</div><div><br>On Jul 27, 2013, at 14:36, Bob-O Schultze <<a href="mailto:bob-o@electronconnection.com">bob-o@electronconnection.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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 <a href="http://dsireusa.org/">dsireusa.org</a> 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:<div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 11px; ">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 11px; ">It also defines a "Main" home:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 11px; ">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.</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8.5px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Now, perhaps an expert bean-counter can work his/her magic on that, but methinks we'd be dumb asses to try it.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8.5px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Bob-O</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8.5px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "></span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><f5695.pdf></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8.5px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "></span></div><div><div>On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:45 PM, frenergy wrote:</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br></div><br></div></div></body></html>