Tuition transfer amounts between federal and provincial

[fexcept]

We live Alberta so we are allowed to transfer for provincial taxes.  My question is what is the transfer split between federal and provincial.  From everything I have read so far it remains ambiguous to me.  Here is my question:

If my daughter has $6000 tuition dollars available to transfer, which of the three possible scenarios is correct:

A) We can transfer $5000 for the federal amount and $0 for the provincial amount

B) We can transfer $5000 for the federal amount and $1000 for the provincial amount

C) We can transfer $5000 for the federal amount and $5000 for the provincial amount

TT allows all of these scenarios to be entered.  Thanks in advance for the answer.

[TurboTaxSusan]

It depends. $5000 is both the Federal (and Alberta) maximum on how much can be transferred. This doesn't mean you'll always get to transfer the full $5000, though. If a student has less than $5000 in tuition or they have already used some (or all) of their tuition reducing their own tax payable, then the amount they can transfer will be less than $5000.

Also, even if you can transfer the full $5000, you may not want to. If the person who's going to receive the transfer has less that $5000 in taxes owning, then there is no point in transfer the full $5000 because the receiver can't use it.

Furthermore, the Federal and Provincial transfers are separate from each other. So it's possible for a student with $6000 in tuition to be able to transfer $5000 for the federal amount and $5000 for the provincial amount .