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Education
I have the same question as many others. I'm claiming this credit for my son as I have every year since he entered college. I claim him as a dependent, he was a fulltime student, I paid his tuition, and his qualified expenses in box 1 exceed his tuition credit in box 5 by 100%. Though these amounts are less than in years past (he graduated at the end of last year), I still expected to be eligible for a tax credit. Yet I still get the response that I do not have any qualified expenses. I even get this response when I go back to the form and delete the 50% tuition credit. I can only imagine two reasons for this: there's a minimum dollar amount for expenses to qualify, or something about the adjustments in years past have somehow carried through for this year. I don't really think it can be the latter, because there are no adjustments on the 2020 1098T, and the questions TurboTax asked about the 2019 1098T didn't include anything about the adjustments, just whatever is in box 2 ( which was empty). So I'm flummoxed, and am also thinking about switching to a different company, after seven years with TurboTax.