Yes, if your child has an unused portion of tuition to transfer, and chooses to do so, your daughter can transfer it to you, her mother. She must first claim the tuition amount on her own tax return. If there is any amount left over after your child has claimed the tuition amount, she has two choices: transfer it or carry it forward. This comes up a lot since students don’t typically earn a lot of income while going to college or university.
As per CRA, your child can transfer up to $5,000 of the tax credit, less the amount used to reduce tax owing. So if she reduced her tax owing by $1,000, the most that can be transferred is $4,000. As a result, the tuition amount that she cannot claim can be transferred to you. You can find more information in this TurboTax blog: Claiming a Tuition Amount From Your Child’s College.
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