pk
Level 15
Level 15

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@taxericko , without having the exact numbers it is difficult to opine whether  TurboTax is correct or not.  However,  the tax computation for purposes of Foreign Earned Income Exclusion ( FEIE) is a little bit convoluted.

 

There is a separate worksheet  in TurboTax doing this computation.  The way it works is   (a) compute  tax liability  based on total world income ( including the  Excluded income;  (b) subtract  the tax attracted by the excluded income ONLY.  Thus it always pushes you into a higher bracket ( marginal Tax  rate ) and  then  subtracts the contribution of the  excluded  income as if it were the ONLY income.

 

This is not a bug -- this is per IRS instructions.

 

Does this help explain your issue  or is there more ?

 

pk