This discussion was started in another forum on greenhybrid.com but I wanted to let everyone who purchased a 2005 HCH-I in 2005 that we are getting the shaft. We bought a 2005 HCH-I in late May-early June 2005. Here's the story:

I was doing my taxes last weekend, when I noticed apparently there is no tax credit for NY State in 2005 anymore. Here's the deal, though, I called the NYS IRS office 5 times in 2005... twice in March and 3 times in May before we made our purchase in late May-early June. I asked 5 different NYS IRS people.... "Has this $2000 credit expired? Will this be in effect for all of 2005?" Each time I was told, Yes it is in effect. I even had my tax lady call herself, which means that we were told 6 times that the tax credit was in affect after it had actually expired. I am considering contacting elected officials to complain about the mis-information and see if they are considering the retro-active to 2005 vehicles.