Education

Hello -- good discussion on 1099-Q. 

I ran into a strange scenario when entering 1099-Q info for my 2020 return.  My federal tax refund DECREASED when I entered a (non-zero) value for box 2 earnings.  Why did this happen?  All of the 529 distributions (box 1) are for qualified educational expenses.  I was expecting that entering form 1099-Q info shouldn't have affected my federal refund at all.  Is it a bug?

 

Because of this, I am not entering any info for 1099-Q this year.