@timbonicus , my apologies for having missed this one --
The situation as I see is
(a) You a US person ( citizen / Green Card ), worked abroad ( Sweden )
(b) Your company stocks vested while you were a resident of Sweden and you have now sold these
(c) Sweden has taxed this gain
What I cannot see from this info is whether you were a US person when the vesting occurred , when the sale occurred or? What I am trying to determine is whether this sale comes under US taxation at all.-- please send me some details if you can. If you are (then and now) a citizen, then the questions go away.
The problem you are having is the recognition of the transaction ( sale of the stocks ) and the treatment of the foreign tax on this so as to reduce the double taxation bite.
I just an through a simulation of stocks sold in Sweden for a US person residing in US
In the personal income series, I selected what I want to work on --then down to investment income to record the sale of the stocks. So now this is recognized for US purposes ( note that the basis of the stocks/asset sold .
Thereafter I went to "Deductions & Credits income" tab , "I will select what I work on .. ", " Estimates / Other Taxed Paid" -- from here on follow through screen by screen --- that should fill out the form 1116. But read the questions carefully , some of the wording is pretty "unhelpful and opaque". But it does the job. If you are using desktop version then it helps between "step-by-step" and " forms" modes -- to see what Turbo is doing.
I hope this help in getting you going.
pk
