@ rbh1000 wrote:
All foreign income earned is under the threshold and is fully exempt, and by proxy, 1040 has lots of zeros, because it doesn't apply as the other form has the reported income. Physical Presence is accurate.
Not Eligible for Electronic Filing
It looks like you have a tax situation in your federal return that makes it ineligible for e-filing, according to IRS rules.
Here are the details:
All of the following lines of Form 1040 have a zero value:
Line 9 - Total income
Line 11 - Adjusted gross income
Line 16 - Tax
Line 18 - Total Tax Before Credits And Other Taxes
Line 21 - Total credits
Line 24 - Total tax
Line 33 - Total payments |
As I suspected, you are trying to efile a zero-income return, which cannot be done. It sounds like all 7 of those lines you listed have a zero value if you excluded all your income with the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. You can't efile a Form 1040 with all zeros on those key lines.
I'm a fellow user, not a tax expert. But I have seen some folks in the forum say to enter a $1.00 in interest income, and then they could efile. I also saw someone who said another option is to enter $1.00 in the category "Other Income" and for the explanation box say "in order to efile."
You may get additional suggestions. Fewer people are in the forum this time of day.
