63-3022C. DEDUCTION FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY DEVICE AT RESIDENCE. (1) An individual taxpayer who installs an alternative energy device to serve a place of residence of the individual taxpayer in the state of Idaho may deduct from taxable income the following amounts actually paid or accrued by the individual taxpayer: forty percent (40%) of the amount that is properly attributable to the construction, reconstruction, remodeling, installation or acquisition of the alternative energy device in the year when such device is completed or acquired and is placed in service by the taxpayer; and twenty percent (20%) per year thereafter for a period of three (3) succeeding years; provided, however, that said deduction shall not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) in any one (1) taxable year.

(2) An individual taxpayer who purchases a residence in the state of Idaho served by an alternative energy device for which none or less than all of the total deduction allowable under this section has been taken, may take the deduction specified in this section, or the unused balance of the deduction.

(3) As used in this section, "alternative energy device" means any system or mechanism or series of mechanisms using solar radiation, wind or geothermal resource as defined in section 42-4002, Idaho Code, primarily to provide heating, to provide cooling, to produce electrical power, or any combination thereof. Alternative energy device includes a fluid to air heat pump operating on a fluid reservoir heated by solar radiation or geothermal resource. Alternative energy device shall also include either a natural gas heating unit, or a propane heating unit, or a wood burning stove which meets the most current environmental protection agency certification, or a pellet stove which meets the most current industry and state standards, and which natural gas heating unit, or propane heating unit, or wood burning stove which meets the most current environmental protection agency certification, or pellet stove which meets the most current industry and state standards is used to replace during the same tax year a wood burning stove designed for residential heating and that does not meet environmental protection agency requirements for certification, provided the wood burning stove is surrendered to the department of environmental quality or its agent for destruction in accordance with applicable federal and state rules.

History:

[63-3022C, added 1976, ch. 212, sec. 3, p. 774; am. 1994, ch. 355, sec. 1, p. 1114; am. 1995, ch. 91, sec. 1, p. 262; am. 1995, ch. 111, sec. 11, p. 356; am. 2001, ch. 103, sec. 97, p. 337; am. 2001, ch. 270, sec. 2, p. 979.]