Did you file with TurboTax last year?
If you filed with TurboTax, to amend, click here: Amend 2018 taxes
If you did not file with TurboTax, and want to amend with TurboTax, here are the steps:
- You will need to purchase a past year TurboTax desktop program here Past Years Products and
- Recreate your return in exactly the way as to how it was filed, then
- Go through the amendment process by following the prompts.
Here are more details about the foreign earned income exclusion:
If you are a US citizen or resident and work physically overseas between October 2018 and December 2019, you may qualify for a foreign income exclusion or foreign income tax credit on your 2018 taxes. Since you were present overseas for only three months ( October-December 2018), the exclusion should be pro-rated on your Form 2555 Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. For more information, click here: see Foreign income and exclusion and Extension.
To enter foreign income in the program, here are the steps:
- Open up the program, and select Take me to my return
- At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in foreign income and Enter
- Select Jump to foreign income
- Follow prompts to enter information
- The program will pro-rate the exclusion
If you have paid taxes to both the foreign and US tax authorities, to avoid double taxation, IRS allows you to claim a foreign tax credit on your US tax return. To claim this foreign tax credit, you would need to file a Form 1116 Foreign Tax Credit.
To enter this information in the TurboTax program, here are the steps:
- Open up your program,
- At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in "foreign tax credit" and Enter
- Select Jump to foreign tax credit
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