Foreign Tax Credit entry from multiple countries is a mess in desktop 2025

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February 15, 2026
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I have nontrivial income from Netherlands, RICx2, and Germany. Before I start down "Estimates and Other Taxes Paid"..."Foreign Taxes" section, it shows $268, which is correct. Once I go in, it tells me I need to create a Form 1116, which is also fine.

I tell it my countries of dividend income(Netherlands, RIC, RIC, Germany), and the next screen tells me to select a country to tell the actual amount of income from that one country, which still makes sense.

I pick Netherlands and press "Report Income". I select which 1099 source the income was from and press 'Continue'.

I enter the amount of income from that source and press "Continue". It says "You've completed reporting all copies of 1099-DIV to a country" which is incorrect. I'm then asked if I want to review my entries. If I say 'No' then only the Netherlands tax gets credited. If I say 'Yes', I start over but the list of countries has been depopulated except for the Netherlands. If I re-enter all the countries and then select a different one to give a dividend/tax for, when I get back to 'review' only the new country is on the list and its completely forgotten the data about the Netherlands!

So of course I go into forms mode and try to fix the 1116 directly on the form. That sort of works, but then it nearly doubles the value seen on "Estimates and Other Taxes Paid"..."Foreign Taxes", which I assume is due to it taking the $268 that was originally there, removing the Netherlands taxation from it, then re-adding all the other taxes I just manually installed in the 1116 form. Something like that, at least. It doesn't seem possible to fix the weirdly large "Estimates and Other Taxes Paid"..."Foreign Taxes" line except by completely deleting the 1116 form.

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pk_

Level 15

@Sophias_Dad , I agree that the round-robin way of entering each is a bit messy and one has to go back and forth till all the entries are shown . I just tried ( for another user ) yesterday with one RIC and One country. It was a bit messy --- one needs to keep keeping the goal in sight. Have not tried your situation of RIC, RIC, Country 1, Country 2 and Country 3. Will do so and see what I find.

Also , I hope the changes/ entries you made were on the Form 116 Comp wks and NOT on the form 1116 ( Copy 1 ).

Will be back --- is there more I can do for you ?

Sophias_DadAuthor

Level 2

I look forward to your results.

I had been manually changing the Foreign Tax Credit Computation Worksheet Copy 1, not the Form 1116 itself(which I can't find in my forms view anyway)