A. You, the parent, claims the tuition credit on your return, not the student, on her return. This is because she is your dependent. She will be amending (if needed) to report some of her 1099-Q as taxable (because the parent used some of the tuition to claim a credit). You can only claim one credit and it will be the AOTC (the other credit is not as generous and takes $10K of tuition rather than only $4K).
Q. Ok sounds good - so short-term, I should complete the section in TurboTax to vet the AOTC credit on my return this year, but should NOT include the 1099-Q and 1098-T forms in my daughter's name?
