What counts in your installs
Work you already bill for- Custom control programmingWriting and reworking scenes, drivers, and logic on Crestron, Control 4, and Savant.
- Cross-platform integrationGetting systems that were never meant to talk to work as one.
- System design for the spaceDesigning audio and video around a room's real geometry, sightlines, and acoustics.
- Video wallsSyncing displays, content, and processors into one clean surface.
- Lighting scenes and controlDesigning and tuning custom lighting behavior and automation.
- Bench prototypingTesting competing brands, drivers, and mounts on the bench before you pick one.
- In-house tools and softwareSoftware your team builds for its own use, when it is truly new and nothing on the market does the job.
- On-site redesignChanging the drawn plan when it meets the real site.
- Undocumented takeoversRedesigning around another firm's undocumented install, when the new design raised real unknowns.
- Custom fabricationMounting hardware built for one install, cut and tested until it fits.
The four questions, for integrators
§41's four-part test- Did you build a system new to your firm?Each one is designed for one space. New to the world isn't required.
- Did it take real know-how?Control programming and making platforms talk is computer science. Acoustics is physics.
- Were you unsure at the start?Odd geometry, mixed platforms, a design nobody's built before.
- Did you try options to find out?Bench tests, floor-plan markups, and redesigns on site are exactly that.
Unsure about any of these? That's what the call is for. The four-part test in plain English
An AV integrator in Phoenix: $105,231 in credits. Two short calls with the owner, about two weeks from signing to finished study.
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Integrators ask
Does owners' time count?
Yes. When owners design, program, or lead qualifying projects, their time counts like anyone else's.
We built a demo system in our showroom to learn a new product line. Can that count?
It can. Parts used up or scrapped in a build that answered a real technical unknown can count as supplies. A demo you keep on display is equipment and stays out. Equipment you capitalize stays out.
We took over an install with no drawings. Does rebuilding the map count?
Partly. Tracing another firm's wiring is fact-finding and stays out. The redesign it feeds can count when the new system raised real technical unknowns.
Do cloud and AI costs count?
Cloud hosting used in qualifying work can. Newer costs like AI usage are case by case, and the study looks at every category.
Filing, how far back, exams, and costs: common questions.
For your CPA: where the credit goes on Form 1120, 1120-S, 1065, or 1040.
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