Under Internal Revenue Code section 127, an employee may generally exclude from income amounts received pursuant to an employer-sponsored tuition assistance or educational assistance program (EAP) that was established in order to fund employee education-related expenses, subject to the maximum limitation discussed below.

This exclusion was made permanent by EGTRRA 2001 following a number of extensions in preceding years.

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