MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

The Truth About Solar Tax Strategies (Most Investors Get This Wrong)

16 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, Mark Kohler critiques a common solar investment pitch where investors buy leveraged solar panels that are installed on residential or commercial rooftops and are managed by a solar company. He highlights the misleading claim that attending a weekend conference and using a simple app can provide the required "material participation" for tax purposes, labeling this assertion as false. Kohler points out that this area is frequently abused, with investors being sold complex tax strategies that do not hold up under scrutiny.

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the solar strategy. You're going to go buy these solar panels, use leverage, and then these solar panels are going to go on the rooftop of a residential home or a commercial home, depending on which strategy you were using. And then some solar company is going to manage the whole process for you. But for some magical way, you have material participation learning about this by going to a conference one weekend and then having a little laptop application or phone app that allows you to manage your solar project to the point you have material participation. Bullshit. So anyway, um, that gets to be one of those abused areas.