I have an 18-year-old daughter in her first year of college. Despite being enrolled in a qualifying degree program and entering 1098-T info that shows tuition as greater than scholarships, TurboTax is telling me (on my taxes):
a) scholarship $ have to be entered as income on her taxes because she did not have tuition expenses for scholarship and
b) she does not qualify for credits because she is not enrolled in a degree program.
I've gone back multiple times trying to correct entry, but cannot fix. TT is giving me a $4000 tuition deduction as my best option.
(TurboTax Home and Business 2019)
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Here are some steps to take to diagnose the issue with your education expenses:
If these steps don't identify the issue, see IRS Publication 970 at this link for the complete rules on whether you education expenses are qu....
You've entered something wrong.
Go through the entire education interview until you reach a scree titled "Your Education Expenses Summary". Click delete next to the student's name. Start over
Thanks for the replies here.
The reply that walked through all the things to check is a great guide for others in understanding the form. I had completed the TT questions correctly, but this was a vary helpful summary to confirm.
The reply that explained how to delete was also helpful. I kept going back through and trying to fix by answering and could not. I was afraid I was going to need to start my return over. The advice to delete at the summary section could save someone a lot of time.
I ended up fixing the problem by pulling up the forms. Information was in the correct place, but the form had left blank several critical places. I edited the form directly and ran the calculation and that worked.
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