Enter the 1098-T, on your return, with $1890 in box 1 and box 5 blank. Enter the $1538 in the books section. That should give you $3428 Total net expenses for the AOTC, resulting in a credit of $2357.
Form 8863 does not break down expenses. If you were entering numbers directly on form 8863, you would enter only $3428 as Adjusted qualified education expenses on line 27. So, an even shorter short cut, in TT, is enter the 1098-T with $3428 in box 1 of the 1098-T , 0 in box 5, and not bother with any other entries.
