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Treasury/IRS Guidances for Energy Credits
Tax years 2006 & 2007
Recent tax law changes improve the tax credit aimed at helping homeowners increase their home's energy efficiency. The law provides a 10 percent credit for qualified energy efficiency improvements installed in the taxpayer's main home in the United States.
You may be able to take this credit for any of the following improvements:
>Any insulation material or system primarily designed to reduce heat gain or loss in your home.
>Exterior windows (including skylights).
>Exterior doors.
>A metal roof with pigmented coatings primarily designed to reduce heat gain in your home.
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Before more sophisticated equipment was available, miners brought canaries into the mines to determine if lethal gases such as carbon monoxide and methane were present. The build-up of gases was not otherwise detectable - until it was too late. If the canaries died in the mine shafts, miners did not go down. If the canaries died while they were in a working mine, miner knew they had to get out asap.
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