Education: Credits & Reporting

Join us on Wednesday, March 26th any time between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm Pacific Time for our latest installment of our Ask the Experts event series. Education tax credits can be huge, but you have to get them right. We’ll help you determine which expenses you can deduct, how to report them, and who gets to claim the credit.

Come spend a minute, an hour, or the whole day in the TurboTax Community forums. We'll have Tax and Financial Experts live - waiting to give you tax or personal finance advice for free! There’s no limit on how many questions you can ask—we’re up for the challenge and ready to answer things like:

What’s the difference? American Opportunity Credit vs. Lifetime Learning Credit
Help! I have a 529/Coverdell plan and don’t know how to report it.
Who claims the education credit - student or parent?
My child has a scholarship, why do I owe taxes on it?
Do I have to report my student loan forgiveness?

How the day will work:

Our team of Experts will be in the TurboTax Community from 9:00am to 5:00pm Pacific Time on Wednesday, March 26th ready to tackle your tough questions and engage in conversation with you. Just click the teal “Ask a Question” button at the top of our special event forum to start a conversation!

You can easily recognize our Experts out in the forums. If they have the Expert icon by their names, they are TurboTax employees. If they have the Champ icon by their names, they are not employed by TurboTax, but they are very knowledgeable.

When you receive an answer, you’ll get a notification (check the bell icon in the upper right corner). You’ll also receive an email notification. Our goal is to answer every question that comes our way before the event is over!

We look forward to hearing from you!

To get started: