KarenJ2
Expert Alumni

Get your taxes done using TurboTax

  1. Enter your income and expenses in the Business section, 

  2. Then you should go to the foreign earned income exclusion section 

  3. On the first screen, check box Form 1099-MISC or other self-employment income.  

  4. Then on the next screen enter her Gross Profit from her business 

  5. When you get to the screen Deductions Related to your foreign earned income you need to enter your business expenses that relate to her foreign income (probably all of your expenses) 

  6. Go through the screens answering the questions all the way to the end of that section. 

  

Please note that the foreign earned income exclusion is only to exclude income tax.  It cannot exclude self-employment tax. 

 

To delete the Form 2555 to start over, you need to delete both the Form 2555s as well as the Wage Worksheet.

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