Yes*, but you could reduce your payroll withholdings now to effectively take home part of the rebate in each of your paychecks (at the cost of a smaller refund/

Yes*, but you could reduce your payroll withholdings now to effectively take home part of the rebate in each of your paychecks (at the cost of a smaller refund/larger payment due at tax filing time). When we bought in Dec 2014, it was no great pain to just claim the credit a few months later at filing. If I was buying earlier in the year, I probably would have adjusted withholdings.