I have been thinking about this a little more. Although I still have not figured out why TurboTax was indicating that my son might have taxable income from the 1099-Q issued under his SSN, I was thinking about a possible workaround to get the desired result of neither my son nor I having any taxable income from these 529 distributions. Since I did not qualify for any educational tax credits, could I have my son put the 1098-T on his return to cover the 1099-Q under his SSN? Is that allowed since he is my dependent? Would that mean that the 1099-Q issued under my SSN would then count at taxable income on my return? Can the 1098 be “split somehow” then to cover both 1099-Qs? Or can qualified education expenses be added manually?
