Carl
Level 15

Education

First, to get any tax breaks for education you must have "earned" income. Additionally, if you qualify to be claimed as a dependent on someone else's tax return (usually a parent) then you don't get any tax breaks.

Education tax credits and deductions are based on out of *YOUR* pocket qualified education expenses paid with earned income that you earned in the same tax year you paid those qualified expenses.

Note also that if the scholarships awarded in box 5 exceeds the amount of qualified expenses paid in box 1, then you have no qualified out of pocket expenses and therefor don't qualify for any tax credits or deductions.

Keep in mind also that after you enter the 1098-T, follow up screens will ask you for those things not included on the 1098-T. So until you finish the education section in it's entirety, it's impossible to know the final results of anything.  Even then, those things you may or may not qualify for can change as you continue your tax return past the education section.