Get more value from investing in your institution
Energy incentives give your institution a valuable way to fund new building projects and facilities while offsetting costs. However, realizing the full value of your opportunities requires in-depth knowledge of complex tax and building requirements.
Don’t leave money behind when completing your energy project. Whether you’re in the initial planning stages or facing challenges with filing, Wipfli can help you navigate the requirements for tax credits for energy efficiency, including:
- Renewable energy tax credits (solar, combined heat and power, geothermal and wind).
- EV charging stations.
- Electric vehicle tax credits.
- Alternative fuel infrastructure tax credits.
- Section 179D tax deduction for energy-efficient construction.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli combines an architect and engineer approach with our deep tax experience to help maximize eligible costs and your tax credit.
Having worked with multiple educational institutions on their energy credit projects, we understand the unique challenges you face. We’re ready to help you develop your project in a way that optimizes cash flow and aligns with your academic and fiscal years.
How we help you
Engage Wipfli’s energy team early in your project for greater support in maximizing your potential credits.
With a Wipfli feasibility study, you gain a clearer outlook on costs and the scope of your project. Our team includes both engineers and tax professionals, giving us the perspective needed to estimate the minimum and maximum tax credits available to you and identify potential hurdles that may impact your credits, such as tax-exempt financing.
We also recognize the importance of your educational institution’s project timeline and can help you plan your projects around your academic year, budget cycle and cash flow requirements.
Wipfli’s team of architects and engineers uses their deep experience in energy projects to help you dissect costs and maximize qualifying components.
We can help you prepare for certification by working with your team to navigate:
- Qualification and evaluation of costs for the investment tax credit (ITC).
- ITC adders and the necessary support, including prevailing wage and apprenticeship, domestic content requirements, energy community requirements and low-income community requirements.
- Computation of estimated value of credit, including any required reductions (if applicable).
- Preparing all the necessary tax forms to claim your credits.
As a top 25 accounting firm, Wipfli has the tax experience you need to help prepare for filing your tax credits with the IRS. We can help you file successfully with support for:
- The full documentation and study from certification.
- Preparing the necessary tax forms.
- Navigating direct pay.
- Navigating the IRS preregistration portal system.
Our team
Doug Kolker, CPA
With 20 years of experience, Doug Kolker leads Wipfli’s energy incentives team, focusing on the energy incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. He is also responsible for the overall planning, organization, supervision and completion of client engagements.
Steven A. Barnes
Steve Barnes is a manager on the cost segregation team with expertise in the engineering approach of cost segregation for both new construction projects and purchased properties. His understanding of construction finances and his ability to analyze construction documents are important assets in the process of cost segregation projects.
Andrew Seifert
Since joining Wipfli in 2015, Andrew Seifert's focus has been assisting clients with complex tax issues. He specializes in federal and multi-state corporate and partnership tax compliance, accounting methods, tax research, and mergers and acquisitions. Andrew also assists with forensic investigations, loss calculations, contractual disputes, business policy development, regulatory compliance matters and litigation readiness. He is dedicated to assisting the firm's clients with their unique and challenging issues.
Dannielle Lewis, CPA
Dannielle Lewis is a partner in the tax practice, focused on serving clients in the construction and real estate industry. She advises clients on complex tax transactions involving partnership interest exchanges or business sales.
