Does someone else claim you as a dependent on their return? Did you have a scholarship that was more than your education expenses?
If you are a dependent on someone else's return, you would not be eligible for an education credit. You would only need to enter the 1098-T if your scholarship income was greater than your education expenses NOT including room and board. If you had scholarship income in excess of your education expenses (tuition, books, fees) that income would be taxable. Since they do not withhold income tax on scholarships, when it becomes taxable it just increases your income and your tax liability, but it does not increase the amount of taxes you had withheld.
So, if you had a job and taxes withheld from your pay, but your pay was low enough that you got it all back, when you added to the income, it used the money withheld from your pay to help cover the taxes on the scholarship income.
You cannot remove the 1098-T if it was taxable income as you must report all taxable income if you file a return.
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