Tax breaks, credits, and rules for students, parents, and educators — everything about taxes and paying for school.
It’s Back To School Week on the blog! All week long, I’ll be answering your questions about school and tax – complete with fun giveaways. Next up: Playing sports while in school can be expensive. Are there are tax deductions or credits available to offset those costs?
It’s Back To School Week on the blog! All week long, I’ll be answering your questions about school and tax – complete with fun giveaways. Next up: Teacher and educator expenses. When teachers, principals and counselors dip into their pockets, is there a tax break available?
It’s Back To School Week on the blog! All week long, I’ll be answering your questions about school and tax – complete with fun giveaways. Next up: How do you treat scholarships, fellowships and grants for tax purposes? Is free money really “free” – or do you have to pay tax on those funds?
It’s Back To School Week on the blog! All week long, I’ll be answering your questions about school and tax – complete with fun giveaways. Next up: It seems like everyone on campus has a bicycle… are there any tax breaks available for cyclists?
It’s Back To School Week on the blog! All week long, I’ll be answering your questions about school and tax – complete with fun giveaways. First up: Are school uniforms deductible?
It’s Back To School Week on the blog! All week long, I’ll be answering your questions about school and tax – complete with fun giveaways. Next up: Can you deduct the cost of foods for allergies, Celiac Disease and other medical concerns? What about dietary restrictions for religious, moral or ethical reasons?
Time is running out. That was the message offered today to more than 1,500,000 residents of the City of Philadelphia from Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr. With the first day of school officially slated to begin in 30 days, Hite held a press conference today to announce that might not happen. Speaking directly to the…
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is under fire for cuts to the education budget. To make way for the cuts, rates for personal and corporate income taxes were slashed with additional changes made to sales and use taxes, unemployment insurance, and property taxes. Is it worth it?
The delay in processing forms 8863, Education Credits, at the IRS is causing more trouble than just slowing down refunds. The delay, which was formally addressed this week by the Department of Education, is the result of “a technical error with a limited number of tax filing software products” and has affected hundreds of thousands…
Taxpayer asks: Most of what I read says that kindergarten tuition cannot be used in figuring the Child Care Tax Credit. However, that said, I thought that if a person resides in a state that does not have mandatory attendance in kindergarten, the tuition can be used to figure the Child Tax Credit. Kindergarten is…
