Education

Thanks so much for hanging with me and for the additional information.  I did get the numbers reconciled, I had a glitch in my manual calculations above after combining, which have been updated below for posterity.  

 

The one curve in this is that while I did combine the 1099-Qs in TT,  one 1099-Q had box 6 (recipient is not the designated beneficiary) checked, and the other did not. The unchecked 1099-Q covered a direct to college payment, and the checked 1099-Q covered two different distributions,  one for the amount owed to the college, for which I sent a persona check in an equal amount to the college, and the other for $7000 of the scholarships which I kept.  Since the numbers are coming out as expected now I'm thinking I'll just keep it as is, if there's a question I have all the backup documentation.

 

Box 1: 7235

Box 2: 4164 (earnings)

 

So.. plugging these into your equation:

$27,166 of qualified expenses

-   14,000 paid by tax free scholarship 

=  !3,166 of expenses are available for the 529 distribution.  

13,583 + 7235 - 13,166 = $7652 is your "non qualified distribution". Since more than that was paid by scholarship, none of the distribution is subject to penalty. 

$7652 / (13,583 + 7235) = 36.6% of the earning are taxable

36.6% x (8006 + 4164) = $4457 of taxable income to be reported on on line 8 of schedule 1