You can only use the foreign tax credit in a year that you report foreign income on your tax return. That is because you can only use it to the extent you pay US tax on your foreign income. For example, if in year one half of your income was from foreign sources, you can only deduct half of your foreign tax. You can't deduct the rest of it until you have foreign income in future years.
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