Home Tech International Pure solar Selling solar, ripping off the consumer, Scamming the IRS and the consumer, charging the consumer for solar credits by inflating solar prices, taking customers solar incentives. Phoenix Arizona
Home tech international/ pure solar is scamming the US government and promoting tax fraud.
The solar incentives are to get people to buy solar and the government pays for part of it.
Thier scam is as follows. They sell you a solar system ( national average cost $3.00 t0 $6.00 per watt) and tell you they charge more for the system to get you a larger tax credit (Tax fraud).
Example: they sell you a 4 KW system, average cost 12000 with a 7500 tax credit, but they charge you 32000 and tell you that this will get you a 12000 tax credit and you won't have to pay out that amount in taxes, or you will get a refund for that amount. Sounds great huh. Well once you sign the contract and you do the reserch into what they are doing you you find you are paying them 20000 to buy 12000 worth of credits. this is called inflating cost to get higher tax credits. This is not legal people and the IRS will get you and them. On top of this they are getting your tax credits up front and you are getting nothing but a bigger bill.
The system should have only cost you $4500 with your corect tax credit, but you just payed 30000 for it because they don't give you the documentation to get the tax credits, so you never get paid back anything.
The tax credits are to pay for part of your system, not pad thier bottom line and put you in debt.
They also give you no information when you sign the contract, so you have no way to check them out before your three days to cancel is up. The only info they give you is for the Pure Solar and they have nothing to do with Home Tech since Home tech is just a separate company using pure solars ROC number.
If they try to sell you this deal, contact the IRS Fruad devision and the Department of Justice right away.
Sorry about any bad spelling, no spellcheck on this form, but you will get what I mean.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Ripped off in az
Chandler,Arizona,
Agreement reached
#2Author of original report
Thu, June 12, 2014
We have come to an agreement with Home Tech International to at least bring the system up to the proper size that we ordered at no extra cost.
With solar the stated size is not the same as what the system will produce, so makeshure you talk to them about what the system will produce and hold them to it (this is called the True Power Value, or real world production). For example: a 4KW system only produces 3KW and that is how the industry apparently works, kind of like a two by four stud is only three and a half by one and five eight inches. It's not right, but that is how they companies make an extra buck off the consumers.
As far as there pricing and if what they are doing with credits is legal, well I belive that will come to play with IRS eventualy and they can decide.
My recomendation is to shop around for solar and if Home Tech or anyone else tells you thier prices are set to get the highest possible tax credit (inflating the price to drain more from the government)you might want to file a complaint about thier business practices with the IRS, or justice department and if there are enough complaints the government might move on this practice.
There is also the BBB and attorney general that could review this as well.
Always check the national averages for solar installation costs before signing on the dotted line! Solar prices are going down yearly.