If you are certain that you made tuition and fees payments in 2016 from your own funds or student loan proceeds, and these amounts are not reported on Form 1098-T, please pay particular attention to Step 5 in the following instructions.
- Open
(continue) your return in TurboTax, if it's not already open.
- In the search box, search
for 1098-T or 1098T (lower-case works also) and then click the
"Jump to" link in the search results.
- Answer Yes to Do you want
to enter your higher education expenses?
- If you land on the Let's
estimate how much you could get this year, click Skip this.
- If you land on the Your
Education Expenses Summary screen, first select Edit next to an existing student or
select Add a new one before proceeding.
Answer any questions that
follow. After a few screens, you'll be asked if you received a 1098-T.
Answer Yes and click Continue.
Enter your Form 1098-T exactly as
you see it, even
if you think it's wrong. Here are some important tips:
- If any boxes on your 1098-T
are blank, leave them blank. Don't enter 0 (this may cause errors later).
- If boxes 1 or 2 on your
1098-T form are wrong, enter those amounts anyway. Then click What if
this is not what I paid? right below box 2 and enter the correct amount
of tuition paid.
- Don't include grants not
already listed in Box 5. We'll ask about those later.
Click Continue when you're done entering the
information from your 1098-T. Answer any additional questions on the
following screens.
