Student Financial Services

Colleges and universities are required by U.S. law each year to provide each student who is a "US person" for tax purposes with Form 1098-T, to assist the students and their families in computing any tax credit or deduction they may be able to claim, based on amounts they have spent for education.

Students from outside the United States should review the Foreign Students section of this page for important information. Most foreign students do not need Form 1098-T for any purpose.

Every Boise State student whose student account had financial transactions post to it during the calendar year will have online access to their Form 1098-T or receive it in paper form in January. You may receive Form 1098-T even if you did not attend class during the calendar year. Receiving Form 1098-T does not necessarily indicate that you are entitled to claim any of the education-related tax credits or deductions. .

You should immediately give it to whoever is responsible for preparing your tax returns. If you prepare your own tax returns, you should keep your Form 1098-T in a file with your other tax documents. Form 1098-T should remain in your files; you do not need to attach Form 1098-T to your tax returns.

Prior year's forms beginning in 2005 are available online through my.BoiseState

First, please review the FAQs on this page, because they will answer many typical questions. For general information on Form 1098-T and the related tax credits and deductions, you may also want to review the information available from IRS in Publication 970 (Tax Benefits for Education) or elsewhere on the IRS web site. Boise State staff are unable to provide any individual tax advice.

If you have questions about the specific transactions reported for your own student account at Boise State, please contact us by email at bsu1098t@boisestate.edu or by phone at 426-1212.

No. We make Form 1098-T available only to the student. The student is responsible for making his or her own Form 1098-T available to parents, tax preparers or other persons. However, you may grant access for your parents to obtain the form on my.BoiseState by signing them up on the Grant Authorized Users Access. Instructions can be found in our Help Documents. As a reminder, only the student can set or reset an authorized user's password.

Like all colleges and universities, Boise State is required to submit the data from your Form 1098-T to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The State of Idaho does not require us to report Form 1098-T data to them.

Box 1 is blank for all Boise State University students. Schools are directed by the IRS to choose a method of reporting, either by reporting the payments received for qualified tuition in box 1 or by reporting the amounts billed for qualified tuition in box 2. Boise State University, like most universities, has chosen the latter method.

This does not mean your "payments received for qualified tuition and related expenses" are zero. To help you review all payments and other credits applied to your account during the year, please refer to your Term Summary Report on my.BoiseState. For instructions on accessing your Term Summary Report, please refer to our Help Document.

We are required by the IRS to report on a calendar year basis which is January 1 to December 31. We can only report amounts to the IRS that posted to your student account between those dates.

Form 1098-T reports only those transactions that posted to your student account during the calendar year. A student is billed for fees on the date he or she enrolls in the class. Spring semester begins in January, but most students register for Spring semester during the previous November or December. Any charges that were billed to your account before January 1 were reported in the prior year's 1098-T form.

Form 1098-T reports only those transactions that posted to your student account during the calendar year. Spring semester begins in January; if you registered, dropped or added classes after December 31, 2012, those amounts will be reported on your 2013 Form 1098-T, which will be available in January 2013.

This is available through online access. Log in through my.BoiseState and select the Box Amount link on the 1098T pages. View our Help Document for more information.

Probably not. Your Form 1098-T reports all transactions that flowed through your student account during the calendar year. However, students typically incur other expenses that may also qualify for tax credits or deductions. The most common example is textbooks. For further information on "qualified" education expenses, please review IRS Publication 970, Tax Benefits for Education. You may wish to consult with a tax professional.

No. Loans by the student or parent are not reported on the Form 1098-T.

You must submit your reimbursement request within 120 days of the date the expense is incurred. However, your reimbursement will be taxable to you if you submit it more than 60 days after the expense is incurred. (For allowable expenses submitted 0 to 60 days, the expense is non-taxable; 61 to 120 days, the expense is taxable; 121 days and beyond, the expense is not reimbursable. Please see more information about taxable reimbursements at the Tax Compliance FAQ webpage.

It's easy. Log in through our my.BoiseState, it's just a few mouse clicks! View our Help Document for more information. You will now have access to your 1098T documents 24x7!

No. Once you have signed up, your election stays in effect for the remainder of your time at Boise State.

Forms 1098-T are available in late January for the prior calendar year.

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With Online 1098-T Access, you can print your own tax form whenever you need. Students who have not signed up for online access by mid-January will receive a paper copy of their form in the mail. That form will be mailed to the student's mailing address on record around the last week in January. Boise State will not supply any additional paper copies of Form 1098-T. To obtain a duplicate, you must download it through my.BoiseState.

Duplicate copies of your Form 1098-T are only available through my.BoiseState.

Probably not. However, that depends on whether you are a "US person" or a nonresident alien for US tax purposes. We make the form available to all US persons as required by law. Nonresident aliens, however, are generally not eligible to claim any of the education-related tax credits or deductions for which Form 1098-T is intended to serve as documentation. If you file your tax return on Form 1040NR or Form 1040NR-EZ, you are not eligible to claim those tax benefits.

You are a "US person" if you are: a US citizen, or a Lawful Permanent Resident ("green card" holder), or a resident alien for tax purposes, by virtue of passing the Substantial Presence Test for the year. Otherwise, you are a nonresident alien (also known as a "foreign person") for tax purposes. For further information, please review IRS Publication 519 (US Tax Guide for Aliens).

For most F-1 and J-1 students, this means if you arrived in the US during or after the year 2006, you are a nonresident alien for tax purposes and you will not need a Form 1098-T.

For most J-1 researchers, this means if you arrived in the US during or after the year 2009, you are a nonresident alien for tax purposes and you will not need a Form 1098-T.

Maybe. Some, but not all, foreign students will receive Form 1042-S (Foreign Person's US Source Income Subject to Withholding). The two largest groups of foreign visitors who receive Form 1042-S include [1] students who received scholarships or fellowships in excess of their qualified tuition for at least one academic term, and [2] Boise State employees who received tax treaty benefits in their paychecks during the year. All Boise State employees will also receive Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, mailed to their home address in January.

Yes, you may. To request it, you must email us at bsu1098t@boisestate.edu each year; your form will then be available on my.BoiseState within 24-48 hours. Please be advised that your receipt of Form 1098-T does not indicate that you are a US person for tax purposes, or that you are entitled to any education-related tax benefits.