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Version: 1.7.3

Overview

Form 1098-T is an IRS form used by eligible educational institutions to report qualified tuition and related expenses paid to each student enrolled. Certain insurers are also required to file this form to report refunds or reimbursements of qualified tuition fees and other related expenses made to any individual. A copy of this form must be furnished to the respective student/individual.

Services you can avail of through TaxBandits API:

  • Federal Filing - E-file 1098-T with the IRS.
  • Postal Mailing - Distribute the recipient copy of Form 1098-T via Postal Mail.
  • Online Access - Make the digital copies of Form 1098-T available online for the corresponding recipients.

Form 1098-T endpoints:​​

You can use the following endpoints to complete the 1098-T filing.

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In order to use the following endpoints, you must call the Auth method to get the access token. This access token must be supplied in the request header as the ‘Bearer‘ token. Refer to OAuth 2.0 Authentication for more information on JWT authentication.

  • Create - To create Form 1098-T for the recipients under the corresponding payer. While creating the form, you can opt for postal mail, and online access if required.
  • Update - To make changes to an existing Form 1098-T.
  • Transmit - To transmit the 1098-T to the IRS.
  • Status - To check the status of the 1098-T after transmission. (As an alternative, you can configure Webhooks for E-file Status Change)

If you need to retrieve Form PDFs, you can use one of the endpoints mentioned here.

Other 1098-T Endpoints:​

You can use any of the following endpoints based on your needs.

  • ValidateForm - To validate the field-level specifications of Form 1098-T before creating the form. (Optional)
  • Validate - To audit the created Form 1098-T data before transmission to the IRS.
  • List - To list all Form 1098-T created and transmitted on the account for a particular submission or Payer.
  • Get - To retrieve the recipient data, business data, and form data from the 1098-T created.
  • GetbyRecordIds - To retrieve the recipient data, business data, and form data using the recordids (without submissionid).
  • Delete - To delete the 1098-T return you prepared in TaxBandits.

1098-T PDF Retrieval​

You can obtain the PDF version of your 1098-T forms using one of the following endpoints:

  • RequestDraftPdfUrl - To return the Draft PDF for review purposes. These forms are not transmitted and will have a watermark "For Review only" on it.
  • RequestPdfURLs - To retrieve PDFs for single or multiple recipients.
  • GetPDF - To get the link for Form 1098-T PDF. To use this, you must have configured Webhook for it, so that the endpoint will return the PDFs via Webhook.

Note: To retrieve the final version of 1098-T Form PDFs, you can use either RequestPdfURL or GetPDF and not both.

To learn how to retrieve a 1098-T PDF, click here.