When you look at a previous year's tax return, if you have an amount on Line 3 of Schedule 3 (education credits), you have a Form 8863 that you can view to see which credit you took. If there is no amount on Line 3, Schedule 3, the American Opportunity Tax Credit was not taken. You need to check the returns the student filed or the parental returns that included the student as a dependent. And you only need to check a couple of returns. In fact, if the student did not start college until 2022, there is no way she could have taken the credit 4 times already.
What transfers in when you start a return using last year's tax file? TurboTax keeps payer information for forms used on the transferred in return.
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