The IRS absolutely does not “let people off” for good faith mistakes- my point was that it’s likely that a lot of the people who filed the wrong claims were simply mistaken and not intentionally trying to defraud the government. Mind you, I don’t have data for that, as I explained.

Until we stop burning fossil fuels in transportation, we need to subsidize BEV technology. BEV’s will save countless lives and billions in healthcare costs for those suffering the ill-effects of fossil fuel pollution.

As a CPA, I appreciate the analysis.  Headlines like this make for good clicks, but usually the truth is buried further than the rabblers want to read.

You see people parked this tight together everywhere in NYC, and I just don’t get how you make your way in and out of spots without everyone having destroyed bumpers.  

Hell, the IRS should be unfunded,

Write for Jalopnik, please. Or write anywhere, actually, and I'll read it. 

The “audits” are being done probably from a small exam group that may only have one or two people. The IRS assessment statute is three years from the due date or the filing date of the return (whichever is later), so the 2018 returns would have an assessment statute expire in 2022. Resources are so thin and everyone…

97,000 Tealas sold last quarter, most Model 3s.  It’s the 5th best selling Sedan in the US, behind Camry, Corolla, Accord and Civic.

Check your glasses, or eyesight. The Model 3 is the only EV on that chart.

You can probably blame dealerships for a bunch of these.

Even just looking at the title before reading the article I guessed this had to do with leasing. I’ve seen many people confused by this. They think that as the lessee they are entitled to the credit. I’m sure the dealers are happy to mislead people on this too.

I’m pretty confident there’s plenty of blame to go around.

I sometimes think the problem is that to an average person, millions and especially tens or hundreds of millions of dollars still seems like a lot of money (and it is). So, it is easy to deride certain government programs as wasteful (and they certainly could be), but when the federal government operates more on the…

He’s not saying it makes it right, he’s saying that you should prioritize the bigger wastes over the smaller ones. That’s common sense. All waste should be eliminated but if you’re worrying about deck chairs on the Titanic, then you have you have your priorities mixed up.

Why would that take so long??

Funny how you’ve resorted to a thought-terminating cliche instead of an actual response.

There is a similar problem in the home solar business, where some customers are getting (*cough cough* extremely predatory) solar panels installed at leasing rates on their homes, and then they expect that they will receive a tax credit for having solar panels. A guy I know from about a decade ago is a territory…

EV’s haven’t been lighting any sales charts on fire

Can we math before we panic?

I suppose I would’ve looked into it more in depth were I to buy an EV, but the only thing I knew is the credit is drastically reduced on Toyotas and others that have passed the volume threshold. The idea that you didn’t get credit for a lease, or it changed based on battery size didn’t occur to me (though it makes…