Is your wife a US citizen or green card holder?
If she is a US citizen or resident, she is required to report worldwide income including those she earned in the UK on her US tax return. You will have to check if she meets the filing requirements for the UK. We do not have information about whether she is required to file or not overseas.
If she meets the US filing requirements, she must file a US tax return. If she pays taxes to both the US and UK tax authorities, she is allowed to claim a foreign tax credit on the same amount of wages she reports on both her US and UK tax returns.
To claim a foreign tax credit on a Form 1116, in TurboTax Self-employed online, here are the steps:
- Open up your TurboTax account and select Pick up where you left off
- At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in "foreign tax credit" and Enter
- Select Jump to foreign tax credit
- Follow prompts
You might be able to claim a foreign earned income exclusion if qualify, see the answer from DianeC958 above. If you did exclude your foreign earned income on your taxes, you cannot claim the foreign tax credit on the same excluded amount. IRS does not allow double-dip.
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