Q. My kid is in Grad school and we pay his apartment rent monthly. Can we deduct that on our taxes?
A. No.
There is no education "deduction", per se. There are two education credits, but room and board (on or off campus) is not a qualified expense for those credits.
Furthermore, room and board are not a qualified expenses for a scholarship to be tax free.
But room and board (on or off campus, even living at home) is a qualified expense for a 529 Plan or ESA distribution to be tax free.
