My "tuition" expense was the total listed on the 1098-T that includes tuition and room and board paid to the school.
I do not know if the $2k scholarship had any specific requirements on how it is "allocated" for tax purposes. I assume I have to talk to someone at the school about that, if it's something I need to figure out. It was a merit scholarship issued by the school and they paid it by simply reducing the tuition bill. Does that mean it has to be allocated to tuition?
Her computer was a gift from her grandmother. Books were already included in my total.
We pay monthly for the wifi, $120/month, I believe. Four of us live here. I can divide the wifi by 4. If I take annual food cost for 2020 and divide by 48 (12*4) I get a single month food cost of $450. But that's going to be hard to justify---I don't have all the receipts for the year. The school's meal plan is $2189 for the semester. If I assume a 15 week semester and she was at home 5 weeks that's $730, so that's higher than our actual cost of food. For housing we have taxes and insurance (house is paid off). I can divide that by 48 as well....?
