My son now has received the first paycheck of his new job. I went to the IRS Tax Withholding Estimator. I entered the federal tax withheld from my son's earlier part-time job, and the federal tax withheld from his first paycheck from the new full-time job. It gave me the correct taxable income before credits and the correct income tax before credits. But when I entered a Lifetime Learning credit of $1215 (the same that he got in 2023), for some reason, the Estimator did not take it into account. The estimator noted "You have not entered any tax credits." in the recap of information entered. The final result was the following, and it did not make any sense:
Expected tax withholding
$0
Anticipated tax obligation*
$2,078
Projected amount owed
$0
Do you have any advice on how to fix the problem?
