Education Amount - British ColumbiaEffective January 1, 2019, the provincial education and textbook tax credits are eliminated. The unused amounts of education and textbook credit, carried over from years prior to 2019, will remain usable for the following years.
Also, since January 1, 2019, an eligible student is an individual over the age of 16 before the end of the year who is enrolled in a university, college or other post-secondary institution.
To be eligible, the fees you paid to attend each educational institution must exceed $100.
Tuition fees must be recorded in the student's file.
Please follow the steps below:
1. In the "Left-side menu of the Interview tab", select "Interview setup".
2. On the "Interview setup" page, go to the "Student" group, check the "Education, studies, student loans" box as well as any other groups necessary to complete your tax return and click "Next" at the bottom of the page.
3. Return to the "Left-side menu on the Interview tab" and select the "Tuition, education, student loans" section.
4. On the screen to your right, click on the plus sign "+" icon located to the right of the line "T2202 Tuition and enrolment certificate (TL11A and TL11S) (line 32300)".
5. On the page that appears, in the "Current year tuition amount" section, go to the line "T2202 Eligible tuition fees paid to Canadian educational institutions for 2019 (enter the description in the first field and the amount in the $ field)". If you have attended more than one establishment, click on the plus sign "+" on your right and a new field will be added.
6. Also, enter the number of months of full-time or part-time post-secondary education, if applicable, based on the information on your T2202 slip. In addition, this information will be recorded on Schedule BC(S11).
The program will generate British Columbia's Schedule BC(S11) to determine the tuition amount and will carry the credit to line 58560 of Form BC 428.
Remember that due to CRA rules, you must first claim the amounts on your own federal and provincial returns to reduce the tax payable.
Please note that you can carry the excess over to a future year or transfer it to a parent or grandparent.
To do this, in the section "Transfer of current year unused amounts", go to the line "Portion to transfer provincial (maximum $5,000)" and in the field to your right choose the appropriate option.
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