DavidS127
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Education

If your scholarship exceeds your qualified tuition expenses, the excess is taxable.  Qualified tuition expenses include not only tuition and student fees, but also books and any required equipment or supplies for your course.

 

So, if your scholarship was more than tuition, student fees, books, required equipment and required supplies, and it is not showing up as taxable income, you should check your entries in the Education section to make sure everything has been entered properly.

 

If while in the Education interview you can't get to the 1098-T screen, keep clicking to Continue until you reach the summary screen at the end and you can edit the 1098-T entry and all your other education entries there.

 

Note that if the scholarship is for your dependent (i.e., you are the parent of the student), the scholarship is taxable on the student's tax return, not your tax return.  But, the dependent student's 1098-T and other education expense still go on your return.

 

The TurboTax article at this link provides a good overview of how scholarships can be taxed.

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