EZTAX wrote:It is just such a waste of everybody's time and it would not be that hard for the Universities to provide the amounts actually paid!
Sounds like a misunderstanding about using Form 1098-T. The schools DO provide the information
to the student, which is all the tax preparer needs. Personally I am uninformed about why IRS asks for all sorts of information and skips other stuff, but my ignorance doesn't mean IRS is being arbitrary. I assume IRS has a perfectly valid purpose for this well established procedure which dates back to before some students were even born.