Deductions & credits

LinaJ2020 · ‎February 16, 2020

If you do not want to claim the foreign earned income exclusion but only the foreign income tax credit, in the foreign earned income section, you would need to check the box that you do not want to exclude. See the steps below:

In TurboTax desktop,

Sign in to 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, Would You Like to Try and Exclude Your Foreign Earned Income? select No
Next screen, Delete Confirmation, select Yes
See the images below

Then you would enter your foreign tax credit information. Here are the steps:

At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in "foreign tax credit" and Enter
Select Jump to foreign tax credit
Follow prompts

Lastly, just a friendly reminder that you cannot claim both the foreign earned income exclusion and a foreign tax credit on the same amount of foreign income. The IRS does not allow double-dip.

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