Prepaid college tuition

I'm surprised they're not imputing income to you for the current value of the tuition minus the amount you paid for it, as a capital gain at best.

Not because they should, but because taxpayers lose with every possible source of revenue when they have a choice how to interpret it.

Maybe you paid for the education when you bought the plan, and that's when the deduction ought to have happened. Who knows.

Ron, it's generally better than imputing income of any sort.

If the 529 plan amounts are used to pay for allowed education costs, even high school, none of the amount is taxable.

But if a 529 disribution is taken and spent on a trip to Las Vegas, then the gain on the amount is taxed as ordinary income. That gain is entered on Form 1040 Line 21.

I've never seen it happen, but that is the rule.

Only capital assets are potentially subject to capital gains.