Department of Taxation and Finance
Instructions for Form IT-267 Geothermal Energy System Credit
IT-267-I
General information
You may claim a credit for qualified geothermal energy system equipment and expenditures installed at residential property located in New York State and placed into service after January 1, 2022. To qualify for the credit, the property where the geothermal system is installed must be your residence at the time the system is originally placed into service.
Amount of credit
The credit is equal to 25% of your qualified geothermal energy system expenditures and is limited to $5,000. You may only claim the credit for one geothermal energy system in a tax year. If the residential property is rented at any time during the year in which the credit is claimed, you may not claim this credit.
In the case of a cooperative housing corporation or a condominium, a percentage of the qualified geothermal energy system equipment expenditures may be attributed to each unit within the building. The cooperative housing corporation or condominium management association should provide this information to each tenant-stockholder or condominium owner.
Leases
If you qualify, you may claim the credit for a geothermal energy system lease for the first 15 years of the lease. No credit is allowed after the 15th year of any lease that is longer than 15 years in duration.
To qualify:
- You must have a written agreement to lease the equipment from someone other than you.
- The lease must be for a minimum of ten years.
- The equipment must be installed, placed in service, and used for personal purposes at your residence located in New York State.
If your credit is more than the amount of tax you owe, you will not receive a refund for the balance. However, you may apply any remaining credit amount to your income tax for the next five years. After five years, any remaining credit expires.
Definitions
Geothermal energy system is a ground-coupled solar thermal system that uses the solar thermal energy stored in the ground or in bodies of water to produce heat and is commonly known as or referred to as a ground source heat pump system.
Line instructions
Line A: If Yes, the system must also be installed and used at your residence in New York State to qualify for the credit.
Schedule A: Computation of geothermal energy system credit
Purchase
Column B: Enter your expenditures for the purchase of geothermal energy system equipment installed, placed in service, and used for personal purposes at your residence in New York State. These expenditures include:
- materials,
- labor costs properly allocated to on-site preparation, assembly, and original installation,
- architectural and engineering services, and
- designs and plans directly related to the construction or installation of the geothermal energy system equipment.
These expenditures do not include:
- expenditures you paid with nontaxable federal, state, and local grants,
- interest or other finance charges, or
- costs that have been used to qualify for any other credit.
Column C: Multiply the amount from column B by .25. If the result is $5,000 or less, enter the result. If the result is greater than $5,000, enter $5,000.
Note: If you are a tenant-shareholder in a cooperative housing corporation or condominium owner, the amount to enter in column B is your share of the expenditures incurred by the cooperative housing corporation or condominium management association. The cooperative housing corporation or condominium management association should provide this information to you.
Lease
Column B: Enter the total amount of all the payments you are required to make under your written agreement to lease the geothermal energy system equipment not owned by you. Do not include payments you made with nontaxable federal, state, and local grants. See Leases above.
Column C: Multiply the amount from column B by .25. If the result is $5,000 or less, enter the result. If the result is greater than $5,000, enter $5,000.
Column D: Enter the total amount of lease payments paid in the current year.
Column E: Enter the difference between column C and the total amount of payments made related to this lease from any previous years’ Forms IT-267, line 1. If the amount of all payments made related to the lease are equal to or greater than column C, enter zero.
Example:
You lease a geothermal system for 12 years beginning 2/1/2022, your payments are $1,000 a year for a total cost of $12,000. You would complete Schedule A as follows:
| Lease |
A Date equipment placed in service (mmddyyyy) |
B Qualified expenditures (see instructions) |
C Column B x 25% (.25) not to exceed $5,000 |
D Amount from column B paid in 2022 |
E Limitation (see instructions) |
| 02012022 | $12,000.00 | $3,000.00 | $1,000.00 | $3,000.00 |
You will enter $1,000 on Line 1.
| Lease |
A Date equipment placed in service (mmddyyyy) |
B Qualified expenditures (see instructions) |
C Column B x 25% (.25) not to exceed $5,000 |
D Amount from column B paid in 2025 |
E Limitation (see instructions) |
| 02012022 | $12,000.00 | $3,000.00 | $1,000.00 | $0.00 |
Because you have already claimed the full amount of the credit, you would not enter an amount on line 1.
Line 1: Follow the directions for your transaction type.
Purchase: Enter the amount from column C.
Lease: Enter the lesser of column D or column E.
Schedule B: Application of credit and computation of carryover
Line 4: Follow the directions for the form you are filing.
Form IT-201 filers: Enter the tax from Form IT-201, line 39, plus any amount from Form IT-201-ATT, line 21.
Form IT-203 filers: Enter the tax from Form IT-203, line 46, plus any amount from Form IT-203-ATT, line 20.
Line 5: If you are applying any credits against the tax before this credit, enter those amounts here.
When applying credits, use the following rules in this order:
- Apply any household credit.
- Apply any credits that cannot be carried over or refunded.
- Apply any credits that can be carried over for a limited duration.
- Apply any credits that can be carried over for an unlimited duration.
- Apply refundable credits.
Line 7: Enter the amount from line 7 and code 267 on Form IT-201-ATT, line 6, or Form IT-203-ATT, line 7.
Special rule: If you occupied a residence with another taxpayer or taxpayers, you must prorate the amount of credit according to the percentage of the total eligible expenditures each of you contributed. However, if you are married and filing a joint return, do not prorate the credit between spouses. Use only your share of the line 3 amount when you compare line 3 to line 6 to determine which amount is smaller. Submit a statement with your return showing the name of each taxpayer occupying the residence and claiming the credit and the total expenditures contributed by each.
Example: You and a parent occupy the same residence. You each pay one-half of the cost of the geothermal energy system equipment. You may claim one-half of the total credit on your New York State return and your parent may claim the other half of the credit on their New York State return. To claim the credit, each of you must file Form IT-267 showing the computation of the total credit and submit a statement detailing the amounts each of you paid.
Line 8: If you occupied your residence with another taxpayer or taxpayers, subtract line 7 from your share of the line 3 amount.
Line 9: You can only carry over a credit amount that is more than the tax you owe for a maximum of up to five years. Enter any expired credit amount on this line.