Thank you for your response Victor. Yes he has about 14k for the Air Force reserves so I am filing a return for him. I don't understand why I can't include the income on my return since I have been putting it on there for other years. Do you know if there is some rule that says if it is net taxable income it needs to go on the student's return rather than the parents? The other reason why I want to keep it on my return is that in the first year 2017 they put about 5k in tuition in box 1 and then didn't have any of the related scholarship income, which was about 4500. I made that adjustment on 2017 and recognized the 4500. Then it finally caught up on the 1098 this year when the tuition is 2100 but the reported scholarships is 6600 and I am making the adjustment of the 4500 on the return to show it relates to prior year tuition. If they look at my returns for 2017 they will see that number adjusted in as income so they can make the match. It won't show all that on my son's return. But maybe I don't need to be concerned about that. What do you think? I guess I could force that number on my return for $300. Ugh...not much money but could cause problems.
Diana
