Heat pump 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.
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Effective 2025-01-01Source: 2025 Instructions for Form 5695 (IRS)Verified 2026-09-03
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 Heat pump and biomass annual credit limit, $2,000, published above.
Figures in this colour are computed from the amounts above. They are not published figures and no document states them.
Work it out
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Worked out for common amounts
| Heat pump or biomass credit claimed so far this year | Result |
|---|---|
| 0 | $2,000 |
| 500 | $1,500 |
| 1,500 | $500 |
| 2,000 | $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)
- Heat pump and biomass annual credit limit
Heat pumps and heat pump water heaters, biomass stoves and biomass boilers have a separate annual credit limit of $2,000 with no lifetime limitation, which replaces the prior lifetime limitation of $500.
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