If My daughter attends a private catholic school where I have to pay her tuition but Im not sure if they provide or required to provide a 1098T. How can I find out?

[elizabethbrakeal]

Is a 1098T required for children attending private catholic schools? Where can I find out and where can I find it? What if the school didnt send one and I cannot get one from them due to summer term?

[SweetieJean]

Is this an elementary/high school?

[Hal_Al]

Q. Is a 1098T required for children attending private catholic schools?

A. No. 

The 1098-T is for post secondary education (college and vocational).  There is no federal tax credit or deduction for K-12 education.  Some states allow a credit or deduction.  If so, it will come up in the state interview. A 1098-T is not required.

K-12 education now qualifies for a 529 distribution. A 1098-T is not required to claim it.  K-12 schools do not issue 1098-Ts. 

[xmasbaby0]

EDUCATION EXPENSES

Education expenses for grades K-12 are not deductible on your Federal return, whether for private, public, or home schooling, nor are the expenses for tutoring, after school lessons or after school activities, such as dance lessons, sports, etc.  Some states allow deductions/credits for K-12 education and/or home schooling expenses; if your state has these deductions available, you will be prompted to enter them when you prepare your state return.  (As far as I know, the states that offer any sort of K-12 deductions/credits are Arizona,  Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,Louisiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin)

[bisraelson]

I have a similar situation. I entered a 1099-Q for a 529 withdrawal. Private k-12 education is a qualified withdrawal up to $10k per year. However, turbo tax is expecting the 1098-T for the education expense side but the private school doesn't issue one.

[Hal_Al]

Q.  I entered a 1099-Q for a 529 withdrawal. Private k-12 education is a qualified withdrawal up to $10k per year. However, turbo tax is expecting the 1098-T for the education expense side but the private school doesn't issue one.

A. Not exactly. In the education expenses section, you can still enter your tuition paid after telling TT that you did not get a 1098-T.  But TT makes you go thru the entire college interview before it disqualifies you for the college tuition credit.  It will then automatically apply the tuition to the 1099-Q, you entered earlier (you must enter the 1099-Q before entering tuition paid. 

There's a simpler workaround.

Instead of entering the educational expenses in the education expenses section, enter it in the 1099-Q section of TT. The workaround is: when asked who is the student, check "someone not listed here" (Lying to TurboTax to get it to do what you want does not constitute lying to the IRS). On the next screen, enter the real student's name.  This will eventually give you one simple screen to enter all expenses. Press Done at the 1099-Q summary screen, to get there. 

Go through the entire education expenses interview until you reach a screen titled "Your Education Expenses Summary".  Click delete next to the student's name.   Then go back to the 1099-Q and edit per the workaround.