Energy efficient home improvement credit headroom, 2025

This works out one number from the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit figures published for 2025. Every amount it uses is below, with the document it was read from. What you enter is your own: this site has no way to check it, and the answer it produces is not a published figure.

Annual credit limit$1,200

Effective 2025-01-01Source: 2025 Instructions for Form 5695 (IRS)Verified 2026-08-28

How it is worked out

The published amount less the amount you enter, rounded to the nearest cent. Where what you enter is the larger of the two, the answer is nothing rather than a negative amount.

It uses Annual credit limit, $1,200, the only one this year publishes.

Figures in this colour are computed from the amounts above. They are not published figures and no document states them.

Work it out

The live calculator needs JavaScript. The table below covers common amounts and is computed the same way.

Worked out for common amounts

Credit claimed so far this yearResult
0$1,200
200$1,000
600$600
1,200$0
How each figure was verified

Each number below was read from a stored copy of the document named beside it, and checked to occur word for word in the quoted sentence. The digest is of that stored text.

2025 Instructions for Form 5695 (IRS)

Annual credit limit
A 30% credit, up to a maximum of $1,200, may be allowed for:
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  • Verified 2026-08-28
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