Federal Education Tax Benefits: Who Receives Them and to What Extent Do They Shape the Price of College Attendance? (NCES 2012-212)

This Statistics in Brief estimates the percentage of 2007–08 undergraduates who received an education tax benefit (the Hope tax credit, lifetime learning tax credit, or the tuition and fees deduction); how the amount they received in tax benefits compared with amounts they received in other forms of aid; and how tax benefits affected their price of college attendance. These results are then explored by dependent students' family income.