To enter your Illinois 529 Plan contributions
for your dependent's education in TurboTax, please follow these steps:
- In your return, select State Taxes tab
- Proceed through the state interview section for
Illinois, answering all questions on residency and income, until you
arrive at a page entitled "Here's the income that Illinois handles
differently"
- Under Education, click on Start button for
"College savings and prepaid tuition plan contributions"
- On next page, "College Savings and Prepaid Tuition
Plans", enter your 2016 529 plan contribution amount in the box for
"Bright Start College Savings Pool" and click on Continue
button
- Finish the rest of the interview questions for Illinois
