| HVAC home improvement tax credits are back | | | | expired at the end of December, 2007. Home |
| by popular demand, or should I say, unpopular | | | | improvements made during 2008 were not eligible |
| demand. In 2005, the Bush administration | | | | for this program, but, in light of the ever |
| implemented the federal tax credit for energy | | | | increasing economic downturn nearing the close of |
| efficiency. This tax credit covers a broad | | | | last year, on October 3, 2008, President Bush |
| spectrum of home improvements, but for the | | | | signed into law the "Emergency Economic |
| sake of this writing, we are concentrating on the | | | | Stabilization Act of 2008." This bill extended tax |
| HVAC, home improvement tax credits that allow | | | | credits for energy efficient Home Heating & |
| homeowners to take advantage of direct tax | | | | Cooling System improvements. Tax credits for |
| credits for replacing older inefficient heating and air | | | | these residential products, which had expired at |
| conditioning systems with higher efficiency, Energy | | | | the end of 2007, will again be available for |
| Star rated appliances. | | | | improvements made during 2009. |
| The original 2005 program ran through and | | | | |