question on 1099Q

matto1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:04:12 GMT

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question about 1099Q and 1098T

Help, I am a bit confused.

Both of my children are age 24 or older, so they are no longer dependents.

They both attended college or post-graduate last year. The institutions issued 1098T forms to each of them.

I took distributions from their 529 plans to help cover expenses, but (and this might have been a mistake), I took the distributions, so the 1099Q forms were issued in my TIN.

For my younger son, I took a 15k distribution, which is almost exactly the amount of the education tuition expenses for last year ($15,020). But for the life of me I can't figure out how to offset the distribution with the expense. I had my son apparently linked as a dependent, and once I de-linked that, TurboTax determined that most of the earnings on the distribution are taxable (excepting about 2.5k that was used to pay off a student loan). I didn't have this issue with my other son.

What should I do? by default I will delete the 1099Q altogether.

Re: question on 1099Q

MinhT1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:24:50 GMT

If the distribution reported on form 1099-Q is fully justified by qualified education expenses (including room and board), you do not need to to enter form 1099-Q on your tax return. Just keep that form in your tax records along with proof of education expenses.

In your case, you can safely delete that form 1099-Q from your tax return.

Please read this TurboTax article for more information.

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