hedgie
Returning Member

foreign tax credit - warning on not able to file electronically

Foreign tax credit is my pain point every year.  Last year, I learned how to create dummy 1099Rs for multiple countries ( RIC + 3 countries) to get the data in.  Fine.  This year I have RIC + the same 3 countries.  This creates 2 copies of the computation sheet -  RIC + 2 countries in one, the last country in the other.  But...this year I get the following message:

 

We noticed that copy 2 of your foreign tax computation worksheets also reports Passive income.  You have room on that worksheet for another country.

You can continue with this worksheet, but YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO FILE YOUR RETURN ELECTRONICALLY IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE WORKSHEETS FOR THE SAME INCOME CLASS. (my emphasis added)

 

What gives, this year's inputs are just like last years as far as all are for passive incomes, same countries, and it filed fine.