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Of your American Opportunity Tax Credit, you most likely qualified for the full $1,000 refundable portion and only a portion of the nonrefundable credit to zero out your federal income tax.
Refundable tax credits, are treated as payments of tax you made during the year. When the total of these credits is greater than the tax you owe, the IRS sends you a tax refund for the difference.
A nonrefundable credit essentially means that the credit can’t be used to increase your tax refund or to create a tax refund when you wouldn’t have already had one. In other words, your savings cannot exceed the amount of tax you owe.
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Source: TurboTax FAQ
Of your American Opportunity Tax Credit, you most likely qualified for the full $1,000 refundable portion and only a portion of the nonrefundable credit to zero out your federal income tax.
Refundable tax credits, are treated as payments of tax you made during the year. When the total of these credits is greater than the tax you owe, the IRS sends you a tax refund for the difference.
A nonrefundable credit essentially means that the credit can’t be used to increase your tax refund or to create a tax refund when you wouldn’t have already had one. In other words, your savings cannot exceed the amount of tax you owe.
To read the whole article, click here.
Source: TurboTax FAQ
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