Beginning winter semester 1999, Brigham Young University will move its regular tuition deadlines to give students and their parents greater flexibility in tax and financial planning. Students attending fall and winter semesters will now have an extra month to pay tuition, while spring and summer students will have an extra two weeks. Last year, the university moved its winter semester tuition deadline from December to January so that qualified students and their parents could take advantage of new federal tax credits related to tuition payments. This will give people the flexibility of paying tuition in the calendar year that best matches their personal tax planning. Tuition payments for fall semester and spring and summer terms have been changed in order to avoid confusion and to provide consistency, Morrell said.
Students can now plan on the deadline falling on the last day to add classes.
To allow for flexibility, BYU will accept tuition payments for winter semester during the remainder of 1998 or through Jan. 15, 1999. For this reason, we are asking everyone to mail their tuition payments early enough so that they arrive in our office no later than Jan. 15. Students also have the option of putting their payments in the on-campus tuition drop boxes on or before Jan 15 as well. BYU students will be receiving a letter from President Merrill J. Bateman, announcing the change, as well as information concerning tax benefits for college students and their parents. The information is being sent to students' local and home addresses.