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Did you come across the screen about the Covid Emergency under "Foreign Earned income section"? Here are the steps:
In TurboTax online,
- After sign into your account, select Pick up where you left off
- At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in foreign income and Enter
- Select Jump to foreign income
- Follow prompts
- On screen, "Choose How to Qualify for this Exclusion", select the last option. See image below.
- Next screen" Choose Your Qualifying 12 Month Period", you will enter 9/18/2019- 9/17/2020 ( This is asking for start and end date of the 12 month period, not when you left UK)
When you look at page 1 of your Form 2555, the Covid-19 Emergency Relief box should be checked. This notifies IRS you are taking the relief treatment to claim this exclusion. See image below.
Due to the global health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS is providing a waiver of the time requirements that allow a qualified individual to exclude foreign income and the housing amount from income. For details, see https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/covid-19-relief-for-form-2555-filers
Therefore, if you left UK between February 1 and July 15, 2020, you should qualify for the exclusion.
