After you file

Did you file with TurboTax last year?  

If you filed with TurboTax, to amend, click here:  Amend 2018 taxes

If you did not file with TurboTax, and want to amend with TurboTax, here are the steps:  

• You will need to purchase a past year TurboTax desktop program here Past Years Products and 
• Recreate your return in exactly the way as to how it was filed, then 
• Go through the amendment process by following the prompts.

Here are more details about the foreign earned income exclusion:

If you are a US citizen or resident and work physically overseas between October 2018 and December 2019, you may qualify for a foreign income exclusion or foreign income tax credit on your 2018 taxes.  Since you were present overseas for only three months ( October-December 2018), the exclusion should be pro-rated on your Form 2555 Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. For more information, click here: see  Foreign income and exclusion and Extension.  

To enter foreign income in the program, here are the steps:

• Open up the program, and select Take me to my return 
• At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in foreign income and Enter 
• Select Jump to foreign income
• Follow prompts to enter information
• The program will pro-rate the exclusion 

If you have paid taxes to both the foreign and US tax authorities, to avoid double taxation, IRS allows you to claim a foreign tax credit on your US tax return.  To claim this foreign tax credit, you would need to file a Form 1116 Foreign Tax Credit. 

To enter this information in the TurboTax program, here are the steps: 

• Open up your program,
• At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in "foreign tax credit" and Enter
• Select Jump to foreign tax credit