SolarMax Technology, Inc.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures designed to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report. Disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is (i) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and (ii) accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In making this assessment, we used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control - Integrated Framework. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this annual report at the reasonable assurance level.

Management's Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

In our 10-Q for the period ended as of September 30, 2024, we identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting related to the lack of adequate controls enabling us to identify the change in the status of the permit-to-operate field in the system, which affects recognition of revenue, coupled with lack of any monitoring and review controls to identify changes to the permit-to-operate field, all of which, resulted in a material audit adjustment to revenue during the quarter ended September 30, 2024.

During the quarter ended December 31, 2024, we completed the implementation and testing of the remediation measures designed to address this material weakness. These measures included (i) generating system reports that identify all changes to the permit-to-operate field, (ii) reviewing the impact of changes to the permit-to-operate field, which includes a detailed review of all billed projects and accrued projects, and (iii) quantifying the impact of the changes and assessing the materiality of proposed adjustments.

We have performed testing to evaluate the operating effectiveness of these remediation measures. Based on the results of our testing, we have concluded that the material weakness related to the lack of monitoring and review controls to identify changes in the permit-to-operate field has been remediated as of December 31, 2024.

As of December 31, 2024, we believe that our internal controls over financial reporting are effective in providing reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of our financial reporting.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Other than the additional controls added to the revenue process, there was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the fourth quarter of December 31, 2024 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures

Our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. Our management recognizes that any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, is based upon certain judgments and assumptions and cannot provide absolute assurance that its objectives will be met. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs. Similarly, an evaluation of controls cannot provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected.

This annual report on Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm.