How do you remove the american opportunity tax credit from turbo tax?

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February 15, 2022
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Best answer by ThomasM125

Educations credits would appear on form 8863 in TurboTax. You may be able to delete that form in TurboTax and that would remove the credit. Otherwise, you should edit your form 1098-T entries and delete form 1098-T (Deductions and Credits, Education, Expenses an Scholarships (Form 1098-T.)

A simple way to delete forms in TurboTax online is to use the Tax Tools menu option, which is on your left menu bar when you are working in your program. Then, choose Tools and then Delete a form. Look for form 8863 in the list of forms and click on the delete tab.

If you are working in the download TurboTax program, use the Forms Mode on your menu bar to bring up the form you want to delete, then choose the Delete Form option at the bottom of the form.

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If you are working in the download TurboTax program, use the Forms Mode on your menu bar to bring up the form you want to delete, then choose the Delete Form option at the bottom of the form.

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chrabbit

There is no option to delete a form in the 2022 downloaded version I'm using now. This whole process of Turbotax automatically claiming the AOTC is very problematic. We need an option to decline. Turbotax needs to give clearer instructions. If all of the educational costs were covered through 529 plan disbursements, we don't qualify for AOTC. I just wasted hours entering all the information from those federal forms and then struggling to delete it all so Turbotax didn't illegally claim a tax credit for me. Why can't they provide clear instructions at the beginning that we should not enter any of that info if our expenses and 529 disbursements were equal. Better to just say we had no educational expenses.

KrisD15

Type

letme

into the search-box and then click the "Jump to letme" link

Uncheck the credit you do not wish to claim.

Be aware that the program is very sticky and may not "let go" of the expenses, so you might need to delete the student worksheet if the reason for changing credits is to have expenses to allocate to tax-free assistance, like a Scholarship.

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