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Deductions & credits
@bilsteint agreeing with @Critter-3 and the suggestions thereof, especially this is your first time with filing for foreign earned income exclusion while self-employed, i.e. seek professional help.
However, and not knowing the full scenario ( your immigration status, where is tax home, when did you arrive at the foreign land, etc. etc. ) here is the general lay of the process:
(a) you file a schedule-C as part of your return ( tell TurboTax that you have self-employed income but do not have a 1099-C . You have to input your gross income and allowable expenses using recognized/published or actual exchange rate -- TurboTax assumes everything entered is in US$. This should result in net income and schedule-SE ( Self-Employment Tax ) which items will be shown on form 1040.
(b) you tell TurboTax that you have foreign earned income and exclusion -- this will then take you through form 2555 qualifying you for the exclusion and entering the exclusion amount as a negative number on proper schedule to affect the form 1040.
The reason for the suggestion to seek professional help is that you need to watch the froms to make sure that the amounts are not double entered --- you can also do this in the "forms" mode using the CD/Downloaded version of the software.
A small point -- since this thread was from 2019, perhaps it would have been better to start a new thread