kc4braves
Returning Member

Deductions & credits

Well, I received my daughters 1098-T and have been trying to add things correctly to our tax return.  I feel like I may have entered something wrong because Turbotax jumped our refund up by $4100 and told us we needed to upgrade to Deluxe to get our credits.  I forgot about the "other" charges which include books so we show $4832 of education expenses leaving $9118 for my daughter to claim as scholarship on her return. I tried to figure out how to reduce our education expenses to $4000 even but don't know how to do that now. Why would our refund jump so much and why do we need more forms?  I added my son and his education info didn't trigger an upgrade or anything.  I do not want to upgrade if I have messed up something but can go no further without upgrading.  Any ideas why the refund jumped so much?