Education Tax Credits Information

If you pay tuition, fees, and other costs for attendance at an eligible educational institution for yourself, your spouse, or your dependent, you may be able to take advantage of one or more of the education tax benefits. You can claim more than one education benefit in a tax year as long as you do not use the same expenses for more than one benefit. Exception: Qualified expenses used to claim education benefits can also be used to eliminate the 10% penalty on premature IRA distributions. For each student, you can elect for any year only one of the following benefits. For example, if you elect to claim the American Opportunity Credit for the student in 2024, you cannot use that same student’s qualified education expenses to compute the Lifetime Learning Credit.

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Education Tax Credits Information from that TAX PLACE