JoshF150
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Just bought a lightning xlt last weekend. I went into it knowing the dealer was not offering the tax credit to front because they had a bad experience with cash for clunkers program years ago. I was ok with just getting out at tax time and asked them multiple times if they did the mandatory paperwork so I could get my tax credit. Salesman said yes and finance team took care of it. While signing the paperwork I asked the finance guy and he said yes they would submit all the necessary paperwork.
So the three days passed and I hadn’t heard back about my copy of the time of sale report and I call dealer back. They claim to know nothing about it and that the didn’t understand what I was asking for when I asked if they reported it to it to irs for my tax rebate. They admitted they don’t sell many evs and just didn’t know. They said they would talk to Ford to see what they needed to do. It’s been a week and they are “still waiting to hear back from Ford”.
I called irs and agent told me since they didn’t report sale in 3 days there was no way I could get the tax credit. They would cross check the vin in their system and it would get rejected.
Thoughts on next steps from my end? I’m giving them a few more days then trying to take more action. They advertise the truck as qualifying for tax credit. I qualify for tax credit as well. They just failed to know their own requirements. I think they are going to need to pay me the $7500 and them try to recoup it on their end. How do I get that? It is a large cooperate dealership do I try to get owner first? Reach out to ford? BBB? State attorney general? Start social media attack reviews?
So the three days passed and I hadn’t heard back about my copy of the time of sale report and I call dealer back. They claim to know nothing about it and that the didn’t understand what I was asking for when I asked if they reported it to it to irs for my tax rebate. They admitted they don’t sell many evs and just didn’t know. They said they would talk to Ford to see what they needed to do. It’s been a week and they are “still waiting to hear back from Ford”.
I called irs and agent told me since they didn’t report sale in 3 days there was no way I could get the tax credit. They would cross check the vin in their system and it would get rejected.
Thoughts on next steps from my end? I’m giving them a few more days then trying to take more action. They advertise the truck as qualifying for tax credit. I qualify for tax credit as well. They just failed to know their own requirements. I think they are going to need to pay me the $7500 and them try to recoup it on their end. How do I get that? It is a large cooperate dealership do I try to get owner first? Reach out to ford? BBB? State attorney general? Start social media attack reviews?
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