NO government taxing authority will "reimburse" you for anything. But qualified education expenses may (or may not) qualify you for certain education expense deductions and credits.
The three areas of "QUALIFIED" education expenses are tuition, books, and lab fees. That's it. There are no exceptions. The cost of a computer can fall under the "lab fees" category if several conditions are met.
- The requirement for the student to own their own computer must be clearly spelled out in the syllabus for at least one of the classes the student is enrolled in.
- The computer must be purchased for the "PRIMARY" purpose of satisfying the syllabus requirement.
So if the device was purchased say, 6 months before the class started that would have been well before the syllabus was issued to new students for that class. You'll have a hard time proving the purchase was primarily for that class.
