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WhoWhatWhereWhenHowY t1_j622e73 wrote

Reply to comment by TJsName in Solar panels? by No_Web2173

Last I knew this isn't necessarily true. Municipalities have the option not to tax solar panels but some still do.

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TJsName t1_j623au7 wrote

Oh interesting. Looked into it a bit more and found this: https://www.revenue.nh.gov/mun-prop/property/equalization-2021/documents/solar-exemption-report.pdf

One does have to apply, so I guess they could be denied.

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Edit: Looking more closely, Manchester has 0 exemptions, which seems suspiciously low.

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WhoWhatWhereWhenHowY t1_j623ojs wrote

The first line of rsa 72:62 says it must be adopted by the muni. Which many have not.

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TJsName t1_j64ebpw wrote

Well I am clearly not a lawyer. I read "Must be adopted by the municipality as" each municipality must adopt it, but clearly that is not the case!

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WhoWhatWhereWhenHowY t1_j64gkmd wrote

Haha I certainly don't pretend to be one either. I just know that last year someone came through our town with a petition to the select board about not taxing solar

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TJsName t1_j64h3xz wrote

Interesting - did the town vote to adopt the statute?

Also, maybe the issue isn't that we're not lawyers, it's that lawmakers don't know how to write code.

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Bicoidprime t1_j69j0h4 wrote

This is pretty substantial - that exclusion of solar from assessed property value saves me $500 per year on an array valued by the town to be $20k.

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