AmyC
Employee Tax Expert

Education

Yes, either the parent or the student can claim.

Paragraph 5 For qualified tuition payments to be deductible, payments must be for college tuition of the taxpayer or a dependent of the taxpayer.

Paragraph 11 shows an example of the student claiming the deduction.

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