Turbo Tax 2019 is inaccurate when handling info to calculate qualified education expense. It subtracts scholarship in box 5 from 1098T from box 1 total payments and thinks that result is the total qualified education expense. The scholarship wasn’t a payment made on my behalf but a reduction in the initial school bill. It took a long while but I found where I can override it in a worksheet by saying the scholarship subtracted nada from the qualified expenses that came from box 1 on the 1098T. There are other issues like the easy step interview saying my son has to pay taxes on all the scholarship he received and so forth. I have always liked turbo tax but with this stuff I realize it’s limitations.
