How do I enter tuition transferred from my spouse/partner or child?
by TurboTax•79• Updated 2 weeks ago
If you have a spouse/partner or child that meets all requirements set out by the CRA, you're eligible to receive tuition transfer amounts on your tax return.
Note: For coupled returns, you'll enter your income info and your student spouse's income, deductions, tuition, and education info, including:
- Completing their Tax profile, including checking the box for Student expenses, tuition fees, or tuition from a prior year
- Completing their Deductions section and their Students section of their return, ensuring that:
- Boxes are checked for Tuition fees and Transfer of tuition and education to a spouse
- Amounts are entered for tuition fees and number of months of attendance
TurboTax will then automatically move the allowable portion of the student's unused amounts to the other spouse/partner’s return.
If you’re unused tuition transfer is coming from your spouse's return prepared separately, or from your child's return, find out the federal and/or provincial amount(s) being transferred to you. Then you’ll then make the reqauired manual entries as follows:
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