I'm glad wwhitney looked at the form ... I'm not arguing with the taxes, I'm just saying :
we've been saying on these forums that "you can't take the EVSE credit if you pay even $1 of AMT", while really the rule is, if you are deducting the EV credit the same year that you deduct the EVSE credit (which should be fairly common for a lot of people) :
"You can't take the EVSE credit if your AMT is not AT LEAST 7500 lower than your regular tax" (and actually, if I were to continue the form, I'm guessing it's really 7500 + the credit you want to get (say you paid 2200 for installation, and want 1100 back, then you'd need to have your AMT $8,600 bellow your regular tax).
I would simply like people here to figure it out for real, so that people won't get disappointed like I was. I knew I would not be paying any AMT this year, and yet, I can't take the credit. For me, as I'm renting and knew I'd have to move (although I didn't know it would be that fast), the credit clearly helped me make a decision towards getting the EVSE installed rather than doing l1 charging.