IRS Publication 970 for 2011??

Paying for College
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<p>Has anybody found 970 yet for 2011? The only version I can find is for 2010 tax returns. I found somewhere via Google that the 2010 version was released on February 10 of last year, so any day now for the 2011 version maybe??</p>

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<p>It is not on the IRS site yet – 2010’s version is – so you are probably right that it will be there any day.</p>

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<p>Now that it is March 5, 2012… I wonder if “any day now” will be before April 17th :)</p>

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<p>AFAIK, nothing has changed in the past year re: all the tax credits/deductions for higher education. Therefore, the 2010 970 instructions should be perfectly accurate.</p>

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<p>It’s available now: <a href=“http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf[/url]”>http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Same URL as last year.</p>

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<p>Open the doc and lo and behold it states “for use in preparing 2010 returns”</p>

<p>LOL.</p>

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<p>Must of had 2011 on my mind.</p>

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<p>Works for me. Maybe you need to clear your cache. ;)</p>

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<p>@kdog44, </p>

<p>Interesting, so you open the pub970 PDF and the first page says that it is for preparing 2011 taxes ? </p>

<p>If this is true than this is really weird.</p>

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<p>If I go to the main publication search page and select pub970 I get the 2010 version. [Forms</a> and Publications (PDF)](<a href=“Forms, Instructions and Publications | Internal Revenue Service”>Forms, Instructions and Publications | Internal Revenue Service)</p>

<p>If I go to the ‘previous years’ page and select the pub970 for 2011 then we are good.
[Prior</a> Year Products](<a href=“http://www.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/priorFormPublication.html?value=970&criteria=formNumber&submitSearch=Find]Prior”>http://www.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/priorFormPublication.html?value=970&criteria=formNumber&submitSearch=Find)</p>

<p>Hmmm…</p>

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<p>

That is correct. At the top it says for completing 2011 taxes using the link from ElaineP. See cut and paste below:</p>

<p>For use in preparing 2011 Returns</p>

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<p>@ all of you!</p>

<p>Oh! This is God-sent! Thank you for posting this, I’ve been going bananas trying to make sense of scholarships and taxes (it may be clear to you -I am excused by having a number-blind brain)</p>

<p>This single publication holds a treasure of info, and many answers for me. Now, why none of the tax preparers I checked with (corporate, H&R block manager, AARP volunteers, experienced CPA) has read it or referred me to it is beyond myself.</p>