Question

Turbo sets my education expense to zero and doesn't let me enter the number from 1098-T. Why?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 25, 2020
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See below. The expenses are set to zero and I can't change them. But there is no place to enter box 1 from the 1098-T

The instructions say that I had "entered earlier" , but where ?

Employee

We are seeing many of the same questions. This has been reported. Wait a week and update the program if you are using the desktop version.

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Bsch4477

Employee

I am informed that this has been corrected.

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kimbasegAuthor

I was able to get around this by deleting my 1098-T form. I suppose it was re-using my forms from last year. Anyway go to tools -> forms and select the 1098-T form and delete it. It isn't much. Then you will start the form interview over from the beginning.

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AnnetteB6

To enter your Form 1098-T information (even when TurboTax thinks it has already been entered and is showing $0), go through the entire education expenses section of your return until you reach the screen titled “Your Education Expenses Summary”, then follow these steps:

Click Edit next to the student name.
On the screen titled “Here’s your Education Summary”, click Edit beside Tuition.
Enter the information from your Form 1098-T.

To go directly to the Education section of your return, use these steps:

On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)
This opens a box where you can type in “education” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
The search results will give you an option to “Jump to education”
Click on the blue “Jump to education” link