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abenes
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Can you help? My son attended university full-time with a modest income. He has a refund coming but Turbotax will not all him to transfer his income to his parent. Why?

I have another son.  similar situation , but was able to transfer the tuition to me.
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Can you help? My son attended university full-time with a modest income. He has a refund coming but Turbotax will not all him to transfer his income to his parent. Why?

The tuition transfer is a non-refundable tax credit that you can use to reduce the tax that you paid or may have to pay. It can’t be used to generate or increase a refund. So, if you don’t have any taxes payable, you will not get the credit.