Tax credit for biomass- burning stoves

The Chetek Alert (Chetek, Wisconsin)
June 24, 2009

The Internal Revenue Service has issued its guidance for the 30-percent consumer tax credit for the purchase and installation of a 75-percent efficient biomass-burning stove.

Some important points of the tax credit are:

* To be considered, a stove must use the burning of biomass fuel to heat a dwelling unit or to heat water for use in such a dwelling unit, and have a thermal efficiency rating of at least 75 percent as measured using a lower heating value;

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