Form 8863 line 23 - turbo tax keeps answering it incorrectly

[joytaffy5]

2019 tax year the answer should be yes and turbo tax puts no for line 23

[JohnW222]

Your best bet is probably to delete Form 8863 and re-input your information.  Please see the TurboTax Help article "How do I view and delete forms in TurboTax Online?" for guidance.

[Anonymous]

deleting did not work. After trying this and having it do the same, we looked into the IRS instructions for Form 8863 line 23 (page7 )

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i8863.pdf

"If the American opportunity and Hope scholarship credits have been claimed for this student for 3 or fewer prior tax years, check “No.” See Student qualifications, earlier. "

If you go by that, then a "no" answer may be correct.

[JohnW222]

That sounds correct, particularly if you're a return TurboTax user.

[chiochow]

This answered my confusion . I was so worried and about to send an amendment because of this confusion . But I checked the IRS form that you linked and it helped me understand why it was checked as NO . That was a smart move to check the orginal IRS form . Thank you , for sharing 🙂 !