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    Mar 9, 2011, 01:03 PM
    Can her laptop be deducted as "needed materials" under the Amer. Opport. Tax Credit?
    We are eligible to take the American Opportunity Tax Credit. My daughter received scholarships in 2010 that brought the cost of tuition down. But my question is that we purchased a laptop computer for her last year to bring to college. She is living on campus. - Can her laptop be deducted as "needed materials" under the American Opportunity Tax Credit? The college has a library with computers in it for the students to use also.
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    Mar 9, 2011, 02:28 PM
    Since there are other computers on campus and your daughter lives on campus, I don't think IRS would find it a need based item. Nice to have but not needed. If the computer was used to browse anything other than school work it isn't "needed". Music on it? Video's?
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