Tax Credits are great things. With deductions, you get to take an amount off of your income, and so your tax will be lowered because your income is less. However, tax credits are treated like money sliced off of the top of your tax bill. A tax credit can even give you a refund over the amount you actually paid in! In other words, a $500 tax credit is usually better than a $500 tax deduction.

How To Get Tax Credits For Solar Energy Home Products

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Homemade Solar Water Heaters

While I was researching some history of solar energy, I found this article from Mother Earth News, posted in the 1970’s. It describes a home project to build a solar water heater by a family who was building a home by themselves. I enjoyed the article, and found it written in a fairly simple style that many handy people could follow! And even though the article is almost three decades old, it could still provide a basic model for a do-it-yourself type person to follow in the twenty-first century.

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