Hal_Al
Level 15

Education

Although employers can provide employees tax free tuition assistance, they are not allowed to provide tax free tuition assistance to employee's dependents.  As Thomas125 said, if you got dependent tuition assistance, from your employer, it should have been included as taxable income on your W-2.  As such, YOU effectively paid the tuition with your (after tax) money.  You can claim a tuition credit and do not report the as either scholarships or tuition assistance.  That is, you don't enter it anywhere. 

 

On the other hand, if it was not properly treated as taxable income to you, how was it reported to you?  For example, did the  school include the amount in box 5 of the student's 1098-T?