I have a similar situation. My wife (British) moved to spend all of 2024 with me in US while receiving UK maternity pay. I am worried if we add this as Other income on the 1040 then we will have to pay full US income tax on it before being credited it back for next years taxes, which comes to a crazy amount of dollars (around $20,000!). Have I understood this correctly that we'll have to pay all this money and then wait a year to get it back?
