Go through the entire education interview until you reach a screen titled "Your Education Expenses Summary". Click edit next to the student's name. That should take you to a screen “Here’s your Education Summary”. Click edit next to the section you want to change; tuition, in your case. Details:To enter your Form 1098-T information (even when TurboTax thinks it has already been entered and is showing $0), go through the entire education expenses section of your return until you reach the screen titled “Your Education Expenses Summary”, then follow these steps:Click Edit next to the student name.On the screen titled “Here’s your Education Summary”, click Edit beside Tuition.Enter the information from your Form 1098-T. To go directly to the Education section of your return, use these steps:On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)This opens a box where you can type in “education” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)The search results will give you an option to “Jump to education”Click on the blue “Jump to education” linkAlso see: https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/entering-importing/help/how-do-i-enter-form-1098-t/00/26336

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masik2307

Level 2

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How to edit college tuition?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
June 6, 2019
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Best answer by Hal_Al

Go through the entire education interview until you reach a screen titled "Your Education Expenses Summary". Click edit next to the student's name. That should take you to a screen “Here’s your Education Summary”. Click edit next to the section you want to change; tuition, in your case.

Details:

To enter your Form 1098-T information (even when TurboTax thinks it has already been entered and is showing $0), go through the entire education expenses section of your return until you reach the screen titled “Your Education Expenses Summary”, then follow these steps:

Click Edit next to the student name.
On the screen titled “Here’s your Education Summary”, click Edit beside Tuition.
Enter the information from your Form 1098-T.

To go directly to the Education section of your return, use these steps:

On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)
This opens a box where you can type in “education” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
The search results will give you an option to “Jump to education”
Click on the blue “Jump to education” link

Also see: https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/entering-importing/help/how-do-i-enter-form-1098-t/00/26336

Mock

Level 9

From your 1098-T form?

masik2307Author

Level 2

I want to remove College Tuition Qual Exp Optimization from my file be ause it does not let me finish filing my taxes

Mock

Level 9

Okay, please see answer below and complete the steps to edit or remove any information.

Mock

Level 9

To edit your College Tuition in TurboTax, please complete the steps below:

Sign in to your TurboTax account
Click on Take me to my return button
Select Federal Taxes tab (on left)
Select the Deductions & Credits tab (on top)
Scroll down to Education, click on Start/Revisit and follow the Interview questions to edit your Tuition.

donnadefeo

Level 2

It won't let me edit the tuition amount. I accidentally added amount paid for books in with the tuition.

Hal_Al

Answer

Level 15

Details:

Click Edit next to the student name.
On the screen titled “Here’s your Education Summary”, click Edit beside Tuition.
Enter the information from your Form 1098-T.

To go directly to the Education section of your return, use these steps:

On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)
This opens a box where you can type in “education” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
The search results will give you an option to “Jump to education”
Click on the blue “Jump to education” link

Also see: https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/entering-importing/help/how-do-i-enter-form-1098-t/00/26336