Educator Expenses -

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
April 4, 2021
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Turbotax is not allowing me to enter $500 for 2 teachers for unreimbursed eductator expense deduction.

It limits it to $250. I can only enter for 1 teacher, which limits the deduction to $250. Program is preventing this for some reason

They should be able to ddeduct $500

NCperson

Level 15

are you using the online or the desktop version? I just tested the desktop version and it accepts $500.

are you listing the $250 separately for each adult on a joint return? If you post the $500 against one adult TT will only accept $250.

gloriah5200

Level 10

Each taxpayer who is an "educator" is entitled to the "above-the-line" deduction for "up to $250" each for Educator expenses. You would need to enter them separately...one for each taxpayer, not a total of $500 for one taxpayer.

For additional questions, please refer to the following IRS link for IRS Topic 458: Educator Expenses

IRS Topic 458 Educator Expenses

Yes, if they are both Educators, then they should be able to deduct a total of $500 on the return, each to be deducting only $250 each.

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