Employer Tuition Reimbursement on W-2

[AZ-Tax]

Client said included in W-2 for which its appears on the YTD breakdown, not within W-2 but TTB - 13-28 has good explanation of that $5250 of employers tuition asst to employee is Excludable from taxes, did I read that correctly?

[solomon]

Client said included in W-2 for which its appears on the YTD breakdown, not within W-2 but TTB - 13-28 has good explanation of that $5250 of employers tuition asst to employee is Excludable from taxes, did I read that correctly?

Yes you did. §127(a)(2)

If, but for this paragraph, this section would exclude from gross income more than $5,250 of educational assistance furnished to an individual during a calendar year, this section shall apply only to the first $5,250 of such assistance so furnished.

[FEDUKE404]

Question

Since you stated the tuition assistance was "included" please advise exactly how such was actually shown on the W2, especially as relates to Box 1 and Box 16?

Is it something that would be apparent if you did NOT have a year-end reconciliation statement from the client, and merely relied upon what the W2 itself shows?

Thanks!

FE