KrisD15
Expert Alumni

Deductions & credits

If you get financial aid to cover your tuition AND you get the excess refunded, you might actually need to report income for that financial aid. 

Only scholarships and grants used for tuition, fees, book and supplies can remain tax free. 

 

I think you might need to retrieve your 1098-T online. Look at your student online account to see if it is listed. 

 

You could use that 1,800 credit if you subtracted the financial aid you were refunded from that amount or perhaps claim the refunded aid as income and the 1,800 as an expense, but you better check for that 1098-T first.   

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