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The American Opportunity Tax Credit is a partially refundable tax credit first detailed in Section 1004 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. [1]
The American Opportunity Tax Credit eases that burden with an annual education tax credit of up to $2,500 for tuition and fees for the first four years of higher education, and it’s available to ...
American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) The American Opportunity Tax Credit allows you to earn up to $2,500 in tax credits when claiming your college tuition and related expenses.
The American Opportunity Tax Credit, which was formerly known as the Hope Credit, provides a 100% tax credit for the first $2,000 you spend on college, with an additional 25% credit on the next ...
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [2]The Student and Family Tax Simplification Act would amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an American Opportunity Tax Credit, in lieu of the current Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits and the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses ...
The American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) [42] was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed into law in February 2009. The AOTC replaced the Hope Scholarship credit for Tax Years 2009 and 2010, increased the benefits for nearly all Hope credit recipients and many other students by providing a maximum benefit up to ...
The American Opportunity credit and the Lifetime Learning tax credit can make higher education costs more affordable.
Starting with tax year 2009, the Hope credit had been supplanted by the more generous American Opportunity Tax Credit. This credit allows for the first $1,200 in "qualified tuition and related expenses," as well as half of qualifying expenses between $1,200 and $2,400, to be fully creditable against the taxpayer's total tax liability.